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US
/bɪˈwɪtʃ/
]
[ UK /bɪwˈɪtʃ/ ]
[ UK /bɪwˈɪtʃ/ ]
VERB
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attract strongly, as if with a magnet
She magnetized the audience with her tricks - cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
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attract; cause to be enamored
She captured all the men's hearts
How To Use bewitch In A Sentence
- Once the bewitcher is unmasked they are then confronted and asked to call off the attack.
- Her dreamy, cinematic songs were bewitching, her jerky dance moves beguiling. Times, Sunday Times
- His obsession verges on monomania, and he becomes ‘bewitched to her memory’.
- We are bewitched, that is certain, and we shall not get away from here before broad day. X. Beneath the Stars
- He almost laughed aloud when she mentioned his bewitching her into sleep.
- Thus Helen of Troy may have been a bewitching casus belli — and her elopement with Paris may have led to the deaths of thousands — but in fact she was acting with aret é ; she showed herself to be in close attunement with Aphrodite, who demanded an obedience not only to herself but to the imperatives of the heart. The Gods Return
- It is surrounded by parkland, including a bewitching rose garden. Times, Sunday Times
- It is not exactly manicured, but that just adds to its bewitchery. Times, Sunday Times
- Perhaps the Others or some other being maintain a bewitchment on that place. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him.