Sekirov Dictionary

trance

UK /tɹɑːns/US /tɹæns/

noun 5
verb 5
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

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A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
- And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. — 1611
A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
A dazed or unconscious condition.
Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
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(dialect) A tedious journey.
- So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire, and into the auld oak parlour; […] — 1824

verb5

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To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
- And there I left him tranced. — 1603
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(rare) To create in or via a trance.
- What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […] — 1995
(dialect) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
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(dialect) To pass across or over; to traverse.
- Trance the world o'er. — 1626
(dialect) To travel quickly over a long distance.

forms

tranced · trancing · trances

Phrases with trance

trance out
To go into a trance.

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