bewitch
to cause someone to be enchanted; cast a spell over someone: She lost her power to bewitch.
Origin of bewitch
1Other words for bewitch
Other words from bewitch
- be·witch·er, noun
- be·witch·er·y, noun
- be·witch·ing·ness, noun
- be·witch·ment, noun
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How to use bewitch in a sentence
In his new, expanded edition of Influence, he describes seven principles, or levers, that essentially bewitch our rational minds and lead us to comply without a second thought.
In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, he gives a master class in the seven psychological levers that bewitch our rational minds and lead us to buy, behave, or believe without a second thought.
Two years later, bewitched by the area, he launched the social enterprise that would become his life’s work.
In East Africa, mountain gorillas and a new paradigm for wildlife travel | Henry Wismayer | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostThat dramatic night, July 27, 2019, marked the peak of weeks of grasshoppers taking to the air after dark and, like moths bewitched by a porchlight, filling the brightly lit streets of the most intensely illuminated city in the United States.
Weather radar shows 30 metric tons of grasshoppers swarmed Las Vegas one night | Susan Milius | March 30, 2021 | Science NewsAt the beginning of October, 33-year-old Dume, who prefers to use his middle name only, believed he had been bewitched.
East Africa’s Healers Embrace Modern Medicine to Treat Depression | Charu Kasturi | December 8, 2020 | Ozy
This charming creature—I tell you she is irresistible—her very oddities bewitch me.
Night and Morning, Complete | Edward Bulwer-LyttonI've been told that country wizards carve images of their victims, and give them the names of those they'd bewitch.
The Road to Damascus | August StrindbergLike foxes and badgers, they are able to bewitch human beings.
Myths & Legends of Japan | F. Hadland (Frederick Hadland) DavisThou liest; or wilt thou even yet deny that thou didst bewitch old Paasch his little girl with a white roll?
The Amber Witch | Wilhelm MeinholdBut, Baas, those Black Kendah wizards forgot to bewitch him against the little yellow man, of whom they took no account.
The Ivory Child | H. Rider Haggard
British Dictionary definitions for bewitch
/ (bɪˈwɪtʃ) /
to attract and fascinate; enchant
to cast a spell over
Origin of bewitch
1Derived forms of bewitch
- bewitching, adjective
- bewitchingly, adverb
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