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Bewitch   /bɪwˈɪtʃ/   Listen
Bewitch

verb
(past & past part. bewitched; pres. part. bewitching)
1.
Attract; cause to be enamored.  Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance.
2.
Attract strongly, as if with a magnet.  Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind.
3.
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something.  Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch.



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"Bewitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... had no effect upon Lemminkainen, his mother began to tell him of the magic of the Northland people, and that they would sing him into the fire so that he would be burnt to death. But he replied: 'Long ago three Lapland wizards tried to bewitch me, and employed their strongest spells against me, but I stood unmoved. Then I began my own magic songs, and before long I overcame them and sank them to the bottom of the sea, where they are still sleeping and the seaweed is growing through their ...
— Finnish Legends for English Children • R. Eivind

... thine shall be whatever cattle and property of mine are under thy father's hand." She smiled and answered, "O my master, I have no greed for the goods nor will I take them save on two conditions; the first that thou marry me to thy son and the second that I may bewitch her who bewitched him and imprison her, otherwise I cannot be safe from her malice and malpractices." Now when I heard, O Jinni, these, the words of the herdsman's daughter, I replied, "Beside what thou askest ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... had been slowly recovering his senses, looked at her a moment; and then thrusting his chair back, crossed himself, and almost screamed, "Malefica! Malefica! Who brought her here? Turn her away, gentlemen; turn her eye away; she will bewitch, ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... those bowers resound, By intermingling strains of thankfulness 175 With their own thoughtless melodies; at least It might have well beseemed me to repeat Some simply fashioned tale, to tell again, In slender accents of sweet verse, some tale That did bewitch me then, and soothes me now. 180 O Friend! O Poet! brother of my soul, Think not that I could pass along untouched By these remembrances. Yet wherefore speak? Why call upon a few weak words to say What is already written in the hearts 185 Of all ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth

... the Achates of the general's fight; Who first bewitch'd our eyes with Guinea gold; As once old Cato in the Roman sight The tempting fruits of Afric ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden


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