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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hypnotize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Nazan agreed to be hypnotized to help him stop smoking.
▪ The crowd was hypnotized by Parker's effortless sax playing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A simple, maddeningly repetitious vibration, it pulsed out from the crystal, and hypnotized all who came within its spell.
▪ After this discussion I hypnotized Kirsty and took her back once again to the time of her operation.
▪ I was too hypnotized to move.
▪ Indeed, many people prefer to remove their shoes when being hypnotized, as they find this more comfortable.
▪ It was only in Danzig that it became clear to me that Zbigniew had hypnotized me.
▪ Many people are curious as to who can and who can not be hypnotized.
▪ The calf, as if hypnotized, never moved.
▪ The frenzied pattern, the faces hypnotized by routine...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypnotize

Hypnotize \Hyp"no*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hypnotized; p. pr. & vb. n. Hypnotizing.] To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hypnotize

1843, see hypnotic + -ize. Related: Hypnotized; hypnotizing.

Wiktionary
hypnotize

alt. To induce somebody into a state of hypnosis. vb. To induce somebody into a state of hypnosis.

WordNet
hypnotize

v. induce hypnosis in [syn: hypnotise, mesmerize, mesmerise]

Wikipedia
Hypnotize (album)

Hypnotize is the fifth album by Armenian American rock band System of a Down and the second half of the Mezmerize/Hypnotize double album. It was released on November 22, 2005, six months after the release of companion album Mezmerize. Mezmerize and Hypnotize both debuted at number #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart making the band one of the few to achieve this with two albums in the same year. Hypnotize was System of a Down's last studio album before their four-year hiatus from August 2006 to November 2010.

Hypnotize

Hypnotize may refer to:

  • Hypnosis
  • Hypnotize (album), by System of a Down
    • "Hypnotize" (System of a Down song), title track from the above album
  • "Hypnotize" (The Notorious B.I.G. song) by Notorious B.I.G., from his album Life After Death
  • "Hypnotize" (Scritti Politti song), a song by Scritti Politti, from the album Cupid & Psyche '85
  • "Hypnotize", a song by Audioslave, from the album Audioslave
  • "Hypnotize", a song by The White Stripes, from the album Elephant
  • "Hypnotize", a song by soulDecision, from the album Shady Satin Drug
Hypnotize (System of a Down song)

"Hypnotize" is the lead single for Armenian American rock band System of a Down's album of the same name, which was released on November 22, 2005 (see 2005 in music). The video was filmed on September 28, 2005, at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It reached number one on Billboard's Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and is the band's biggest international hit.

As in many Mezmerize/Hypnotize songs, guitarist Daron Malakian accompanies Serj Tankian in the vocal sections. Serj and Daron perform a harmony in the refrain before and after the instrumental bridge. The combination of the two vocalists gives the song a vocal range, with Serj handling the lower verses and Daron handling the higher verses. Musically, "Hypnotize" changes modes in several places. The opening guitar riff and early verses are an upbeat melody that switches between the I (melodic) and V (Hindu) modes of F# melodic minor. The later riffs and the outro to the song are in the more commonly heard VI (natural) mode of F# minor. This mixing of modes creates the song's characteristic psychedelic feeling.

The Eastern-themed instrumental bridge contains at least four overdubbed clean guitar tracks and a well-crafted, syncopated rhythm. The song leads up to a massive crescendo, then ends with a repeated portion of the opening riff with soft singing by Malakian.

Hypnotize (The Notorious B.I.G. song)

"Hypnotize" is a single by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. It was released as the first single from his album Life After Death on March 1, 1997 and the last song released in his lifetime, as he was killed in a drive-by shooting a week later. It was the fifth song by a credited artist to hit number 1 posthumously. It was ranked number 30 on Rolling Stone’s 50 greatest rap songs of all time in Hip Hop history.

Usage examples of "hypnotize".

At the same time it has been demonstrated again and again that persons can and do frequently hypnotize themselves.

This time he experienced a still greater degree of terror, and incidentally learned that he could hypnotize himself.

If the powers of the mind are so enormously increased, all that is required of a very sensitive and easily hypnotized person is to hypnotize him or herself, when he will be able to read thoughts and remember or perceive facts hidden to the ordinary perception.

If a person is weak-minded and susceptible to temptation, to theft, for instance, no doubt a familiar acquaintance of a similar character might hypnotize that person and cause him to commit the crime to which his moral nature is by no means averse.

He must hypnotize me before the dawn, and then I shall be able to speak.

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 hypnotize 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?

Besides, I may be of service, since you can hypnotize me and so learn that which even I myself do not know.

And it has become a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotize her at such times.

Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotize her.

I tried to hypnotize through her sleep, but she made no response, none at all, and the day broke.

So he delay, and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Undead have hypnotize him.

I can hypnotize people into buying no other magazines or newspapers but my own.

Unaided, he might not be able to hypnotize the murderer against his will, but with the proper apparatus, there were distinct possibilities of success.

You say that he himself foresaw that attempts would be made to hypnotize him, and took steps against it.

It was all part of her ability to hypnotize, only instead of applying it to others, it was self-directed.