Definitions for trance

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Spelling: [trans, trahns]

IPA: /træns, trɑns/

Trance is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in trance (acenrt).

Definitions for trance

noun

1. a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
2. a dazed or bewildered condition.
3. a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing.
4. an unconscious, cataleptic, or hypnotic condition.
5. Spiritualism. a temporary state in which a medium, with suspension of personal consciousness, is controlled by an intelligence from without and used as a means of communication, as from the dead.
6. a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. to put in a trance; stupefy.
2. to entrance; enrapture.

verb (used without object)

1. to move or walk rapidly or briskly.

Origin of trance

1300-50; Middle English traunce state of extreme dread, swoon, dazed state Middle French transe literally, passage (from life to death), derivative of transir to go across, pass over Latin tr

Examples for trance

Ed described himself as a demonologist, while Lorraine, who is 87, calls herself a trance medium.

Twenty people surround Grace, all of them intently studying her trance state.

It was Daisy's voice which awakened me from this species of trance.

There's sort of a look in your eyes as if you'd got in a trance and couldn't get out.

Indeed, he did not awake from this kind of trance until the geese and turkeys were unspitted.

“Death is not the end,” as some characters recite, in something like a trance, to which I can only say, rats!

As in a trance, he saw more than the dam; he saw what it symbolized.

The simultaneously upbeat and sentimental ode to friendship is equal parts funk, trance, pop, and R&B.

Had she been, indeed, as her mother said she looked, "in a trance?"

"I was in a trance and I couldn't see anything else," LaRose said at her sentencing.