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Bewitch   /bɪwˈɪtʃ/   Listen
Bewitch

verb
(past & past part. bewitched; pres. part. bewitching)
1.
Attract; cause to be enamored.  Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance.
2.
Attract strongly, as if with a magnet.  Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind.
3.
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something.  Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch.



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"Bewitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Miss Bogle is beginning to bewitch her too,' she said. 'Nurse is a goose, as I told you. She just does everything Miss Bogle wants. And if it wasn't for the parrot and you,' she went on solemnly, 'I daresay when Gran comes home he'd find me ...
— Peterkin • Mary Louisa Molesworth

... and sounding vanities That half the crowd bewitch, What are they but inanities To him that ...
— Poems: New and Old • Henry Newbolt

... started in a pet; but, after the first canter, she set herself to bewitch Mr. Talboys, just to keep her hand in; she flattered him up hill and down dale. Lucy ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade

... with too much joy, each other seeing; And only absent when we are together. Give me my self, and take your self again! Devise some means but how I may forsake you! So much is mine that doth with you remain, That taking what is mine, with me I take you. You do bewitch me! O that I could fly From my self you, or from ...
— Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Idea, by Michael Drayton; Fidessa, by Bartholomew Griffin; Chloris, by William Smith • Michael Drayton, Bartholomew Griffin, and William Smith

... me and ask me to be hers. Just imagine it. Some dainty little damsel of a soulful nature, with deep blue eyes, and golden curls, and pearly teeth, and cherry lips, a cheek like the soft and ripening peach and a smile that would bewitch even a Saint Anthony, getting down on her knees and saying, 'O Idiot—dearest Idiot—be mine—I love you, devotedly, tenderly, all through the Roget's Thesaurusly, and have from the moment I first saw you. With you to share it my lot in life will be ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various


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