trance
noun/trɑːns/
/træns/
- [countable] a state in which somebody seems to be asleep but is aware of what is said to them, for example if they are hypnotized
- to go/fall into a trance
- When the subject has gone into a deep trance, they are taken back to an earlier stage of their life.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- light
- hypnotic
- …
- enter
- enter into
- fall into
- …
- state
- in a trance
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- [countable] a state in which you are thinking so much about something that you do not notice what is happening around you
- She drove, gripping the wheel in a trance, hardly aware of her surroundings.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- light
- hypnotic
- …
- enter
- enter into
- fall into
- …
- state
- in a trance
- (also trance music)[uncountable] a type of electronic dance music with hypnotic rhythms and soundsTopics Musicc2
Word OriginMiddle English (originally as a verb in the sense ‘be in a trance’): from Old French transir ‘depart, fall into trance’, from Latin transire ‘go across’.
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