Bewitch

Word BEWITCH
Character 7
Hyphenation be witch
Pronunciations /bəˈwɪtʃ/

Definitions and meanings of "Bewitch"

What do we mean by bewitch?

To place under one's power by magic; cast a spell over. transitive verb

To captivate completely; fascinate. synonym: charm. transitive verb

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.

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. transitive verb

To cast a spell on someone or something verb

To astonish or amaze 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 verb

To cast a spell upon.

To fascinate or charm.

To astonish, amaze.

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The word "bewitch" in example sentences

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." ❋ Unknown (1997)

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. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Nonetheless, when the Emperor lay dying, the nightingale returned to bewitch Death and earn the ruler a reprieve. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

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? ❋ Carol Reid (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If I could bewitch authors with such a spell my top 5 would be: ❋ Nalini Singh (2009)

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!" ❋ Lee Lawrence (2012)

Her brothers-in-law were using the herbs to bewitch her husband until it seemed he was mentally ill. ❋ Karen Palmer (2010)

His earliest juju required the girl to agree to the mild enchantment; the juju he got later could bewitch a girl whether or not she was interested. ❋ Karen Palmer (2010)

Note 55: CS 644, 647; Proto-Bantu * - dog - "to bewitch." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note 129: CS 646,647; Proto-Bantu * - dog - "to bewitch"; East Ruvu kuhunga madogoli "ceremony to call up a spirit" (Kutu, Kwere, Zaramo) ndogoli "type of drum used in calling spirits"; Swahili [borrowed] idogori/madogori. ❋ Unknown (2008)

* Kuloga, like many previous ideas, represents a direct retention of a proto-Bantu verb that meant "to bewitch." ❋ Unknown (2008)

But what you probably don't know about Washington is that the whole city was designed by Masonic warlocks who laid out pentagrams and symbols all over the city in order to create a black-magic engine of pure animal sexuality to bewitch the minds of otherwise decent people, turning them into godless slaves to their horniest of impulses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His grace notes bewitch with casual power: the "oyster of phlegm" spat onto a man's shoe; the way an approaching storm "bruised" the daylight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Moonshine has an added mystique that can bewitch its fans — and stir a writer like "Chasing the White Dog" author Max Watman to set out in search of modern backwoods distillers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Making a dessert with persimmon, lemon juice crystals, sugar, and anis with a fragrance so aromatic it seemed to bewitch the entire auditorium, Adrià coyly reminded us, as he added it into the mix, that honey, is bee spit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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