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
But Mozart’s genius obliterates Salieri’s limited talent so utterly that the elder musician is bewitched by it.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
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
He owns more than a thousand of them - although he only plays a select few on stage - and, even as he approaches 80, the star is still bewitched by the instrument.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2023
Astonished and like one bewitched the monk gazed at the ferryman.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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