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voo·doo

Audio Help [voo-doo] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -doos, adjective, verb, -dooed, -doo·ing.

–noun

1.	Also, vodun. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion.

2.	a person who practices this religion.

3.	a fetish or other object of voodoo worship.

4.	a group of magical and ecstatic rites associated with voodoo.

5.	(not in technical use) black magic; sorcery.

–adjective

6.	of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo.

7.	Informal: Usually Disparaging. characterized by deceptively simple, almost magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo politics.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to affect by voodoo sorcery.

[Origin: 1810–20, Americanism; < LaF, earlier vandoux, vandoo < a West African source perh. akin to Ewe vodũ demon

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voo·doo Audio Help (vōō'dōō) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. voo·doos

A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, syncretized from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. Also called vodoun.
A charm, fetish, spell, or curse holding magic power for adherents of voodoo.
A practitioner, priest, or priestess of voodoo.
Deceptive or delusive nonsense.

tr.v. voo·dooed, voo·doo·ing, voo·doos
To place under the influence of a spell or curse; bewitch.

adj.

Of or relating to the beliefs or practices of voodoo.
Based on unrealistic or delusive assumptions: voodoo economics.

[Louisiana French voudou, from Ewe vodu and Fon vodun.]

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voodoo

religious witchcraft of Haiti and Southern U.S., ult. of African origin, 1850, from Louisiana Fr. voudou, from a W.African language (e.g. Ewe and Fon vodu "spirit, demon, deity," also Vandoo, supposedly the name of an African deity, from a language of Dahomey). Cf. vodun "fetish connected with snake worship in Dahomey," said to be from vo "to be afraid," or vo "harmful." The verb is attested from 1880.

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voodoo
noun
1.	a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers [syn: juju]
2.	(Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities
3.	a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities
verb
1.	bewitch by or as if by a voodoo

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voodoo [ˈvuːduː] noun

a type of witchcraft originally practised by certain Negro races in the West Indies

Arabic:	فودو: مَزيج من السِّحْر والشَّعْوَذَه
Chinese (Simplified):	伏都教
Chinese (Traditional):	伏都教
Czech:	čarodějnictví
Danish:	voodoo
Dutch:	voodoo
Estonian:	voodoo
Finnish:	voodoo
French:	vaudou
German:	der Wodu
Greek:	βουντού
Hungarian:	néger varázslás
Icelandic:	vúdú(galdrar)
Indonesian:	tenung
Italian:	vudù

Japanese:	ブーズー教
Korean:	(서인도 제도의 흑인 일부가 믿는) 부두교의 주술
Latvian:	maģija; buršana
Lithuanian:	burtai, kerai
Norwegian:	voodoo(-trolldom)
Polish:	gusła
Portuguese (Brazil):	vodu
Portuguese (Portugal):	vudu
Romanian:	voodoo
Russian:	шаманство
Slovak:	čarodejníctvo
Slovenian:	vudu
Spanish:	vudú
Swedish:	voodoo
Turkish:	vudu, büyü

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
voodoo

A form of animism involving trances and other rituals. Communication with the dead is a principal feature of voodoo. It is most common in the nations of the Caribbean Sea, especially Haiti, where people sometimes mingle voodoo and Christian practices.

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Voodoo

Vau*doux"\, n. & a. See Voodoo.

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Voodoo

Voo"doo\, n. 1. See Voodooism.

2. One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.

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Voodoo

Voo"doo\, a. Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.

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