trance• He looked stunned, almost in a trance, but he soon regained his composure.• The channeler goes into a trance and summons spirits, who either talk through the channeler or appear directly to those present.• Snapping out of his brieftrance, Mungo supposed Stanley was relieved that at least the shop had survived the flood.• a hypnotictrance• Finally I shook myself out of my trance and rolled over on the cot, facing away from her.• At once the two of them fall into a kind of trance.• At least Jenny had known that she would be either drunk or in a state of trance.
go/fall into a trance• She decides to weave the most beautifulblanket in the world and falls into a trance.• The channeler goes into a trance and summons spirits, who either talk through the channeler or appear directly to those present.• Towards the front, some of the men had gone into trance, waiting for the goddess to possess them.• Some of them had gone into trances, and questions were asked by many worriedparents.• Sometimes he went into a trance.• When he did sleep, he simply went into a trance for five minutes.• Breathe the air and you fall into a trance.
in a trance• He looked stunned, almost in a trance, but he soon regained his composure.• Nails sat all day in a trance and every teacher who took his classreported his state to his form-master.• He edgedforwardin a trance and, as he did so, the light in the room was switched off.• As the deepblackshadow in Glen Keltney closed over them, they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue.• I went about as if in a trance, speaking to no one, not hearing when anyone spoke to me.• Their faces glaze over as if in a trance.• And we lived in a trance throughout most of the 1980s.• Gee! You were really in a trance. Didn't you hear me at all?• Her companionurged her not to interrupt him, as he was running in a trance.
Origintrance
(1300-1400)Old Frenchtranse, from transir“to pass away, become unconscious”, from Latintransire; → TRANSIENT1