Bewitch
[bɪ'wɪtʃ]
Definition
(v. t.) To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
(v. t.) To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Charm, fascinate, enchant, captivate, transport, enravish, enrapture, entrance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Enchant, fascinate, charm, captivate, entrance
ANT:Exorcise, disillusionize, disenchant
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Definition
v.t. to affect by witchcraft (mostly malignantly): to fascinate or charm.—ns. Bewitch′ery Bewitch′ment.—adj. Bewitch′ing charming enchanting.—adv. Bewitch′ingly.
Typist: Virginia
Examples
- Don't look at me with those eyes if you would bewitch me again! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Are you bewitched? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I was not obliged to bring their unhallowed scrawls, and run the risk of being bewitched, as more folks than one told me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I think I was bewitched in earnest when I was beside that girl! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- How bewitched I was! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Was he bewitched by those beautiful eyes, that soft, half-open, sighing mouth which lay so close upon his shoulder only yesterday? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I b'lieve I am bewitched, sure enough! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Again the name by which she seemed bewitched was almost the first on her lips. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What a bewitching land it is! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They are certainly bewitching! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Bewitching Mrs. Copperfield's encumbrance? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Most men thought her bewitching when she was on horseback. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He kept the book open at the bewitching portrait, and looked at it rather languishingly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Joe,' said Arabella, at length, looking round with a most bewitching smile, 'how do you do, Joe? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I know that such a girl as Harriet is exactly what every man delights inwhat at once bewitches his senses and satisfies his judgment. Jane Austen. Emma.
Typist: Ruben