bewitched; bewitching; bewitches
1
a
: to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft
b
: to cast a spell over
: to bewitch someone or something
Examples of bewitch in a Sentence
People believed the girls had been bewitched.
a Wiccan who believes that it is indeed possible to bewitch someone
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That bewitching face stopped Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger in their tracks.
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Sam Kashner, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
Fly, do not run, to see Wicked, a bewitching musical experience chanted by a spellbinding cast.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Greenland, an icy land whose rugged landscapes are bewitching, wants to attract more tourists, a paradox for a territory that is particularly vulnerable to global warming and whose geographical isolation means that many people have to take planes to get there.
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Ella’s youthful charm bewitched me.
—Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2025
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Sam Kashner, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
Fly, do not run, to see Wicked, a bewitching musical experience chanted by a spellbinding cast.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Greenland, an icy land whose rugged landscapes are bewitching, wants to attract more tourists, a paradox for a territory that is particularly vulnerable to global warming and whose geographical isolation means that many people have to take planes to get there.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
Ella’s youthful charm bewitched me.
—Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Bewitch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bewitch. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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bewitch
verb
be·witch
bi-ˈwich 
1
: to put under a spell
2
: to attract or delight as if by magic
bewitchment
noun
-mənt
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