hypnotised

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

having your attention fixated as though by a spell

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Examples

I have known silence: the cold earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; the implacable stony silence of a deep cave; the hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotised and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun; the silence when great music ends. Gerald Durrell

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character. Sherwood Schwartz

A six-year-old girl who only ate chicken nuggets due to a bizarre phobia has been cured after being hypnotised. Source: Internet

Bernheim argued that anyone could be hypnotised, that it was an extension of normal psychological functioning, and that its effects were due to suggestion. Source: Internet

Hypnosis is a role that people play; they act "as if" they were hypnotised. Source: Internet

Tintin is hypnotised by a fakir and institutionalised in an asylum, which he soon escapes. Source: Internet

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