bewitched
Americanadjective
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affected by or as if by witchcraft or magic; under a spell.
They heard strange stories from the local people about the house; someone said it was a bewitched house, that it was cursed.
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enchanted, charmed, or fascinated by someone or something.
On the second-last number, as the concert reached its crescendo, he invited a bewitched audience to join in with the chorus.
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By the end of the second hour—partly spent traversing grid-patterned streets to avoid an accident—I was bewitched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
In Episode 1, the bewitched Agatha peers into what appears to be a child’s room in her house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
He said it was she who first bewitched him when he worked as a page in the stacks of the Johns Hopkins University library in Baltimore as an undergraduate.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
Left-armer Kuldeep bewitched England for 5-72, while Ravichandran Ashwin marked his own 100th Test with 4-51.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Could Salvador be right when he said the Ortegas had bewitched them?
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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