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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having your attention fixated as though by a spell

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Examples

  • Warnings past lover ripped off others RUMOURS were rife in the Riverina town of Deniliquin when wealthy widow Janet Fisicaro became "hypnotised" by known "womaniser" Des Campbell, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Warnings past lover ripped off others RUMOURS were rife in the Riverina town of Deniliquin when wealthy widow Janet Fisicaro became "hypnotised" by known "womaniser" Des Campbell, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Twain sacked Lyon in 1909, claiming she had tried to steal from him and had "hypnotised" him for three years.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Twain sacked Lyon in 1909, claiming she had tried to steal from him and had "hypnotised" him for three years.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Fellowes, who lives between his homes in Dorset and London, warned locals recently that they should not be "hypnotised" by the supermarket giant.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Warnings past lover ripped off others RUMOURS were rife in the Riverina town of Deniliquin when wealthy widow Janet Fisicaro became "hypnotised" by known "womaniser" Des Campbell, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Warnings past lover ripped off others RUMOURS were rife in the Riverina town of Deniliquin when wealthy widow Janet Fisicaro became "hypnotised" by known "womaniser" Des Campbell, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Twain sacked Lyon in 1909, claiming she had tried to steal from him and had "hypnotised" him for three years.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • You hypnotised my attention and I let myself follow your steps along the path leading me to a garden of enchantment ... and to the most attractive wooden gypsy trailer surrounded by flowers planted in little mining carts.

    gens du voyage - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • You feel that Lepage, while critical of the east, is also hypnotised by its aesthetic.

    Blue Dragon - review 2011

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