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HYPNOTISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Induce hypnosis in

Synonyms:

hypnotise; hypnotize; mesmerise; mesmerize

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "hypnotise" is one way to...):

calm; sedate; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hypnotise"):

entrance; spellbind (put into a trance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

hypnosis (a state that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion)

hypnotiser (a person who induces hypnosis)

Credits

 Context examples: 

At dawn Van Helsing hypnotised me; he says I answered "darkness, creaking wood and roaring water," so the river is changing as they ascend.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Before sunrise and sunset, however, she is very wakeful and alert; and it has become a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotise her at such times.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was becoming hypnotised!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So he delay, and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Un-Dead have hypnotise him; and he remain on and on, till sunset come, and the Vampire sleep be over.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotise her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should, if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)