Trance

Meaning

(countable) A dazed or unconscious condition..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
2. (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
3. (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
4. (uncountable, music) Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
5. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
6. (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
7. (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
8. (obsolete outside British, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.

Example Sentences

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.

And there I left him tranced.

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. […]

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.

So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire, and into the auld oak parlour; […]

Word Forms

• trances
• traunce
• trancing
• tranced

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