hypnotize

(redirected from hypnotizing)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical.

hypnotize

[′hip·nə‚tīz]
(psychology)
To induce a state of hypnosis.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
Three distinct spaces that, as described by May, played on perspective, illusion, visibility and invisibility: the patterned floor extending from the bridge; the dramatically lit subterranean world beneath; and the magical inhabited space in between--all dynamically tied together by the hypnotizing effect of two lifts locked in perpetual motion.
Bankside revisited: as the first public event in May 2000, London Taxi drivers were invited to a party in the Turbine Hall as part of a clever marketing plan to raise Tate Modern's profile. Since then, what has been happening in London's newest public square, a destination that through the success of the Unilever Series has become a new gauge for public art?
This hypnotizing, whirlwind piece kept the dancers spinning in circles against the complex musical score by Steve Reich.
Danse a la bordelaise. (News)
David Lynch was back in great form with Mulholland Drive, his latest twisted and hypnotizing phantasm, which played to sold-out audiences.
The Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media (10/11-1O/21/O1). (Festival Wraps)

Encyclopedia browser ?
Full browser ?