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
It was hearing Murphy speak of his creative process that bewitched Hunnam into that “Yes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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
Andrea Carnevale, the former Italy striker who is now a scout for Udinese, was said to have been bewitched by the Veronese kid.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2023
They had been given special, new quills for the exams, which had been bewitched with an Anti- Cheating spell.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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