Antonyms for trance
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : trans, trahns |
| Phonetic Transcription : træns, trɑns |
Definition of trance
Origin :- late 14c., "state of extreme dread or suspense," also "a dazed, half-conscious or insensible condition," from Old French transe "fear of coming evil," originally "passage from life to death" (12c.), from transir "be numb with fear," originally "die, pass on," from Latin transire "cross over" (see transient). French trance in its modern sense has been reborrowed from English.
- noun hypnotic state
- It was Daisy's voice which awakened me from this species of trance.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- There's sort of a look in your eyes as if you'd got in a trance and couldn't get out.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- Had she been, indeed, as her mother said she looked, "in a trance?"
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- Indeed, he did not awake from this kind of trance until the geese and turkeys were unspitted.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
- As in a trance, he saw more than the dam; he saw what it symbolized.
- Extract from : « Raiders Invisible » by Desmond Winter Hall
- Martha Graham gasped, entered the hall as though in a trance.
- Extract from : « Old Rambling House » by Frank Patrick Herbert
- Miss Martha also seemed to be coming out of a dream, or trance.
- Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Her trance was over now, and rude indeed had been the awakening.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
- At that word Davy looked like a man newly awakened from a trance.
- Extract from : « Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon » by Hall Caine
- I stood there, in front of our street-door, in a kind of trance.
- Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
Synonyms for trance
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