Bewitch
verb
To charm or enchant someone, often in a deceptive way.
He was bewitched by her beauty.
Often appears as...
- bewitched by beauty
- bewitched by looks
verb
To cast a spell on someone or something.
The witch bewitched the prince and turned him into a frog.
Often appears as...
- bewitched by a witch
- bewitched into a frog
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Literary
verb
To attract or charm to a great degree, as if by magic.
The child was so bewitched by the puppet show that he didn't notice the time passing.
Often appears as...
- bewitched by the puppet show
- bewitched by music
verb
To charm or enchant someone, often in a deceptive way.
He was bewitched by her beauty.
Often appears as...
- bewitched by beauty
- bewitched by looks
verb
To cast a spell on someone or something.
The witch bewitched the prince and turned him into a frog.
Often appears as...
- bewitched by a witch
- bewitched into a frog
Usage tips
Literary
verb
To attract or charm to a great degree, as if by magic.
The child was so bewitched by the puppet show that he didn't notice the time passing.
Often appears as...
- bewitched by the puppet show
- bewitched by music
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Deceptive charm
Suggests someone may be misled by another’s alluring traits or appearance.
He was completely bewitched by the con artist's charisma.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle persuasion
Used when someone is gradually and almost unknowingly influenced by charm.
The audience was slowly bewitched by the speaker's compelling words.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional effect
Indicates a strong, often unexplainable emotional impact on someone.
The melody bewitched the crowd, leaving them in awe.
Pro Tip 1/3Deceptive charm
Suggests someone may be misled by another’s alluring traits or appearance.
He was completely bewitched by the con artist's charisma.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle persuasion
Used when someone is gradually and almost unknowingly influenced by charm.
The audience was slowly bewitched by the speaker's compelling words.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional effect
Indicates a strong, often unexplainable emotional impact on someone.
The melody bewitched the crowd, leaving them in awe.
Pro Tip 1/3Deceptive charm
Suggests someone may be misled by another’s alluring traits or appearance.
He was completely bewitched by the con artist's charisma.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle persuasion
Used when someone is gradually and almost unknowingly influenced by charm.
The audience was slowly bewitched by the speaker's compelling words.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional effect
Indicates a strong, often unexplainable emotional impact on someone.
The melody bewitched the crowd, leaving them in awe.
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Ugly History: Witch...
and poisoning or bewitching targets the devil singled out for harm. Though there was no evidence to support any of these claims, belief in witches became widespread. A witch hunt often began with a
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When I was a young man, I spent six years of wild adventure in the tropics working as an investigative journalist in some of the most bewitching parts of the world.
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Japanese Bees Swarm...
bewitched it's not nectar that's lured it in but the smell of its mortal enemy thinking it's a hornet the bee attacks the petals
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Ugly History: Witch...
and poisoning or bewitching targets the devil singled out for harm. Though there was no evidence to support any of these claims, belief in witches became widespread. A witch hunt often began with a
Video examples
For more wonder, rewild...
When I was a young man, I spent six years of wild adventure in the tropics working as an investigative journalist in some of the most bewitching parts of the world.
Video examples
Japanese Bees Swarm...
bewitched it's not nectar that's lured it in but the smell of its mortal enemy thinking it's a hornet the bee attacks the petals
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Quote examples
Sivamani
Indian Musician
I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.
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Goldwin Smith
Canadian Historian
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
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John Adams
American President
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian Writer
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
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Francois Truffaut
French Director
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Lou Henry Hoover
American First Lady
The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.
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Tom Shales
American Writer
Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.
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Lorenz Hart
American Musician
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
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Nelly Sachs
German Poet
Bewitched is half of everything.
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Sivamani
Indian Musician
I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.
Quote examples
Goldwin Smith
Canadian Historian
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
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John Adams
American President
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian Writer
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
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Francois Truffaut
French Director
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Lou Henry Hoover
American First Lady
The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.
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Tom Shales
American Writer
Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.
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Lorenz Hart
American Musician
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
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Nelly Sachs
German Poet
Bewitched is half of everything.
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