bewitch
verb (used with object)
to affect by witchcraft or magic; cast a spell over.
bewitchment
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a word derived from
bewitch.
Example Sentences
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It was not bewitchment, or blindness; it was that tender, mournful green.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
With her tousled hair and forbidding aloofness, May was a figure of bewitchment, la belle dame sans merci of the sardonic comeback.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
And yet in Julian Mitchell's exemplary adaptation it glides on to the stage scented with the peculiar tang of Ford's writing: a mixture of regret, bitterness, bewilderment and bewitchment.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2010
Distrustful, he regards this as "bewitchment" and determines to resist it.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
Then she turned from him, and as he watched her run towards home he wished he had lied to her and risked bewitchment.
From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
