Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To place under one's power by magic; cast a spell over.
- transitive verb To captivate completely; fascinate. synonym: charm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To subject to the influence of witchcraft; affect by witchcraft or sorcery; throw a charm or spell over.
- To charm; fascinate; please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
- transitive verb To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
cast aspell on someone or something - verb to
astonish oramaze
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb attract; cause to be enamored
- verb attract strongly, as if with a magnet
- verb cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Together they studied the Bac books, and Barragán began to design patios which would "bewitch" the user, and to pursue his search for an "emotional architecture."
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Together they studied the Bac books, and Barragán began to design patios which would "bewitch" the user, and to pursue his search for an "emotional architecture."
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Bac’s illustrated books on the art of landscaping - Le CoIombier and the Enchanted Gardens - suggested that gardens should be enchanted places for meditation, with the capacity to "bewitch" the onlooker.
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Bac’s illustrated books on the art of landscaping - Le CoIombier and the Enchanted Gardens - suggested that gardens should be enchanted places for meditation, with the capacity to "bewitch" the onlooker.
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Imagine, I've become the porridge princess- I can bewitch the oats and water into a pottage that makes the young men laugh and old men cease their laughter- me, an incomer, with not a word of Gaelic and a name that's not an island name, aye, right enough, and laundry on the line on Sunday- do you know my secret?
Hebrides Carol Reid 2011
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Nonetheless, when the Emperor lay dying, the nightingale returned to bewitch Death and earn the ruler a reprieve.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout" Michael Giltz 2011
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I am just trying to suggest that the way we use language, and especially the way we use normative terms in a non-normative sense, can bewitch us even into our thinking within ourselves that we have reached some kind of conclusion, when all we have done is restated our assumptions in an obscure way.
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Nonetheless, when the Emperor lay dying, the nightingale returned to bewitch Death and earn the ruler a reprieve.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout" Michael Giltz 2011
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If I could bewitch authors with such a spell my top 5 would be:
Angels' Blood Countdown: Ilona Andrews - The Kate Daniels Series Nalini Singh 2009
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Twenty years later, these theories re-emerged in comics like "Pharaon: The Ice Brain," in which spies uncover a Nazi cabal bunkered inside a Tibetan mountain, where they have built a supercomputer "to intoxicate the world and bewitch the people!"
Tibet Goes KABOOM! Lee Lawrence 2012
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