trance

UK /tɹɑːns/ US /tɹæns/
noun 5verb 5name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A dazed or unconscious condition.

2

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.

My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.

3

A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.

4

Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).

verb

1

To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.

And there I left him tranced.

2

To create in or via a trance.

The Horned Toad (kɛŋkak) tranced the rivers into being. A bakɔh bird tranced the mountains. The Scrub Bulbul (ˀɛsˀããs) drilled fire into existence with its beak. And, finally, the Bronzed Black Drongo (tɛrhɛɛh) tranced the year […]

What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […]

verb

1

To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.

2

To pass across or over; to traverse.

Trance the world o'er.

After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.

3

To travel quickly over a long distance.

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