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Meanings of hypnotic in English
Class of psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep and to be used in the treatment of insomnia (sleeplessness), or for surgical anesthesia.
See moreAttracting and holding interest as if by a spell.
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Examples for "mesmerizing"
Examples for "mesmerizing"
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Dahlgren's rapier tip moved slowly from right to left, with mesmerizing effect.
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The result is a mesmerizing trip into the dark heart of technology.
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In this case, a mesmerizing video of a wind turbine on fire.
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She walked down the grassy hill slowly, the water already mesmerizing her.
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She recognized that it was a rune, a mesmerizing rune, and powerful.
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Mahrez's mesmeric play has dominated the front pages of every daily paper.
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It is a mesmeric, intoxicating sight, a view to make one gasp.
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I was conscious, but I was in a kind of mesmeric sleep.
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The sheer vacuity of his mind might naturally slide into mesmeric sleep.
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There's a mesmeric momentum at the heart of Factory Floor's debut album.
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Those that it is possible still to see share a spellbinding beauty.
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Pakistan have played some of the most spellbinding cricket of recent decades.
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Indeed, this was a unique and spellbinding woman, a personified American dream.
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Jim is an illustration wizard and this is a beautiful, spellbinding book.
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Those beautiful hands were just so spellbinding, he had to touch one.
Usage of hypnotic in English
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The effect, as my example suggests, can be quite hypnotic or doom-laden.
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The fundamental principle of the hypnotic state lies in its selective character.
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At that point, Diane, I brought her out of the hypnotic state.
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Diane, log the following tape as first hypnotic event, subject Caroline Earle.
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Background: Pregnancy is associated with decreased hypnotic requirement, allegedly related to progesterone.
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The next step is the acquisition of the hypnotic state, per se.
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As first impressions went Jamie found looking at the acrobats almost hypnotic.
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The room enveloped her with a hypnotic sense of calm and warmth.
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They stood on the bridge and listened to the rhythmic hypnotic knocking.
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This year's performance is oddly hypnotic, AND it's got a water feature.
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He's hammy: he crosses a line into a kind of hypnotic absurdity.
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Steel structural columns sit inside the wraparound glass, creating hypnotic vertical lines.
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Ululations, hypnotic African and techno, trance sounds filter through a smoke-filled stage.
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Sawyer was just completing the passes used to break the hypnotic influence.
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In the next chapter, you'll learn how to deepen the self-hypnotic state.
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Their debut album, released in June, proved just as haunting and hypnotic.
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Translations for hypnotic
Portuguese
Hypnotic through the time
Hypnotic across language varieties
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United States of America
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