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Definition of bewitch :
1. To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.
2. To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect ( esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
Synonyms:
seize, overhear, arrest, transfix, transport, pick up, intrigue, view, magnetise, charm, take hold of, trip up, enthral, conquer, spellbind, witch, persuasion, juggle, watch, enamor, ravish, enchant, grip, jinx, becharm, voodoo, see, fascinate, influence, hypnotise, get, glamour, catch, like, delight, magnetize, hoodwink, enrapture, catch up with, entrance, hitch, hex, spell, trance, take in, tempt, mesmerize, hypnotize, grab, enthrall, appropriate, captivate, beguile, overtake, mesmerise, capture, enamour
Usage examples:
- It was unfortunate; an utterly inexcusable laughter seemed to bewitch them, hovering always close to his lips and hers. - "The Fighting Chance", Robert W. Chambers.
- " Marquis," said Duplessis, seating himself, and regarding Alain with a look in which were blended the sort of admiration and the sort of contempt with which a practical man of the world, who, having himself gone through certain credulous follies, has learned to despise the follies, but retains a reminiscence of sympathy with the fools they bewitch, " Marquis, pardon me; you talk finely, but you do not talk common sense. - "The Parisians, Book 10.", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
- It is a kind of men most to be abhorred, which hurteth the body of infantes wyth bewitchyng: and what shal we say of those parentes whiche thorowe their negligence and euyll educacion bewitch the mynd? - "The Education of Children", Desiderius Erasmus.