Verb (used with object) : The speaker hypnotized the audience with his powerful personality. ,The headlights hypnotized the deer and it just stood staring at the oncoming car. From Dictionary.com.
Twain sacked Lyon in 1909, claiming she had tried to steal from him and had "hypnotised" him for three years. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Her big dark eyes had the look of one self-hypnotised. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
This might ensue after the victim was more deeply hypnotised. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
India is seriously hypnotised by working for American co-corporation. From Wordnik.com. [Snoop Dogg, Entrepreneurship and Rajasthan] Reference
Having slept insufficiently is similar to being partially hypnotised. From Wordnik.com. [Keith Olbermann Apologizes For Crack About Hillary] Reference
In the grinding room of a cocoa factory one becomes almost hypnotised by. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
Freer was hypnotised, made to see an apparition, and left susceptible to. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
Arithelli listened, hypnotised and bewitched, as she always was by music. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
I would vote for a hypnotised kangaroo anyday than elect this obama dramaqueen. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The congregation felt they were taken into his confidence; they were hypnotised. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
He thought that she moved and held herself like one hypnotised, like a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference
Those who can't see this are enchanted, under a spell, hypnotised, brainwahed TVZombies. From Wordnik.com. [Mostly, We are Idiots. So How Did We Elect a Genius?] Reference
And even the people who like warmth began to grumble a little -- hypnotised by the Press. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference
And hopy tope! sagd he, anded the enderer, now dyply hypnotised or hopeseys doper himself. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Do not permit your mind to be self-hypnotised into a false sense of being "exhausted" and "old.". From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
Until then I had been hypnotised by her last word: ‘break,’ she had meant to say break what?. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
In this case the second person should apparently be hypnotised, and willed to appear to the third. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
This would be like the two engineer students 'case, where the hypnotised one appeared to a friend. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
She can be put to sleep at almost any distance, and when hypnotised completely changes her character. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
Their object would easily be affected with people already hypnotised in the railway station or train. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
Itis everyones choice, vote as a hypnotised mesmerised slave or vote as a thinking and committed citizen. From Wordnik.com. [Superdelegates WILL Decide: Will They Allow Clinton To Take the Scorched Earth Path?] Reference
I know that many otherwise intelligent people have been hypnotised by the prophecy in "The White Prophet". From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
As the hypnotised goat is fate would have been miserable beyond swallowed by the boat-constrictor, so Great. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917] Reference
He hypnotised the man Holt, and sent him away, intending you to go after him, and so being rid of you both -- '. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The drums hypnotised the valley and drove the Frenchmen on and they passed just fifty yards in front of Sharpe. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
He knew the fascination of such torrents and how one could be drawn into them, hypnotised by their rush and noise. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
A gleam would catch reflection in the glassy eyes of a stiff form, fade and leave you staring hypnotised into the night. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
The mind hypnotised by negative thoughts has been compared by a mental scientist to a dirty wash-bowl full of dirty water. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
They state that this is the only symptom by which any one can tell he has been hypnotised, and that this is not always present. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
Yet he failed to exploit this opportunity until it was too late and he was far too hypnotised by his plans for conquering Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Graf Spee]
The American public are like the sheep, they have been hypnotised to believe that they are free, so why would they demand freedom?. From Wordnik.com. [Shearing the Sheep or The Magician] Reference
She seemed hypnotised by the breaking waves, but Holmes could see the moment when her attention was caught by the figure far below. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
An exceedingly manly, robust character, and devoted to his profession, he could not without being hypnotised have deserted his ship. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
"I want," Mary went on in the even tone of one hypnotised by a foregone conclusion, "to go and live with Jennifer and write -- things.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
They were hypnotised, so they believed him and contentedly ate the grass, stayed out of the ravines and did not get stuck in the fence. From Wordnik.com. [Shearing the Sheep or The Magician] Reference
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