What is "hypnotise"

Usage examples of "hypnotise".

At first Rosemary West may have been cajoled or bullied by her violent husband to experiment with bondage, but as her own sexual awareness developed so her pleasure in sadomasochism flowered, until she became as hypnotised by it as he had become.

She had put her hand into the water and seemed hypnotised by the sight of it and by the flotsam of leaves and waterweed that swam into her fingers.

Sam felt hypnotised by the duet of their sing-song voices, first one, then the other.

Consciously she knew none of these things, she was only aware of being lulled, almost hypnotised, by the magic of his voice.

She was fully hypnotised now, under his spell, her green eyes huge and glowing, with the black, dilated 173 pupils in their cent res shining like polished jet and reflecting his face.

The noise battered imperatively on the eardrums of the self hypnotised Graham.

Cerdan was lying on the bed, clothed and awake, his eyes staring up as if hypnotised by the beam of the torch.

It has been suggested that the conjurors hypnotise the spectators, and make them believe they see these things.

He's dealt with old-time commie weak-AI's before, minds raised on Marxist dialectic and Austrian School economics: they're so thoroughly hypnotised by the short-term victory of capitalism in the industrial age that they can't surf the new paradigm, look to the longer term.

Faces still staring, an entire audience hypnotised by that viper in its pseudo-jungle of no more than a cubic metre.

They can still be hypnotised, but far more co-operation is needed from the patient, and sometimes the use of mild electric currents.

Neither does that mermaid who's hypnotising the man in a sailor's costume.

Gorillas, lemurs, dolphins I will watch entranced for hours, hypnotised as much as anything else by their eyes.