hypnotize
verb🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪz/
🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪz/
(British English also hypnotise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they hypnotize | 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪz/ 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪz/ |
| he / she / it hypnotizes | 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪzɪz/ 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple hypnotized | 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪzd/ |
| past participle hypnotized | 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪzd/ |
| -ing form hypnotizing | 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈhɪpnətaɪzɪŋ/ |
- hypnotize somebody
to produce a state of hypnosis in somebody 对（某人）施催眠术 - [usually passive] (formal)
to interest somebody so much that they can think of nothing else 使（某人）着迷；迷住 - be hypnotized (by something)
He was hypnotized by her beauty. 他见她艳丽动人而神魂颠倒。 She gazed down into the ocean, hypnotized by the swirling tide. 她凝视着大海，被潮水催眠。
- be hypnotized (by something)