MEANING
1. To guide someone into a hypnotic state.
2. To hold someone’s attention as if in hypnosis.
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Words that belong together
- hypnotize a subject
On the page
The therapist hypnotized the subject.
The fictional voice seemed to hypnotize him.
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Word forms
- Base
- hypnotize
- Past tense
- hypnotized
- Past participle
- hypnotized
- Present participle
- hypnotizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- hypnotize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are hypnotizing
- Present perfect
- have/has hypnotized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been hypnotizing
- Past
- hypnotized
- Past continuous
- was/were hypnotizing
- Past perfect
- had hypnotized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been hypnotizing
- Future
- will hypnotize
- Future continuous
- will be hypnotizing
- Future perfect
- will have hypnotized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been hypnotizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: hypnotize; hypnotizes; hypnotized; hypnotized; hypnotizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: hypnotizes.
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