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bewitch

/bəˈwɪt͡ʃ/

bewitch verb: to cast a spell upon.

Verb

bewitch (third-person singular simple present bewitches, present participle bewitching, simple past and past participle bewitched)

  1. (transitive) To cast a spell upon.
    • And further, this examinate saith, that she sent both her spirits to Stonesby, to one Willison, a husbandman, and Robert Williman, a husbandman's son, and bade the kitten go to Willison and bewitch him to death, and the moldiwarp to the other and bewitch him to death, which they did, and within ten...1852, Thomas Wright, “Witchcraft in England during the Earlier Part of the Seventeenth Century” (chapter XXIV), in Narratives of Sorcery and Witchcraft from the most Authentic Sources, page 288
    • Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance,[…]1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 10
  2. (transitive) To fascinate or charm.
    • I was bewitched by the sight of the girl dancing in the forest.
    • A Svveet diſorder in the dreſſe / Kindles in cloathes a vvantonneſſe: / […] / A Cuffe neglectfull, and thereby / Ribbands to flovv confuſedly: / […] / Do more bevvitch me, than vvhen Art / Is too preciſe in every part.1648, Robert Herrick, “Delight in Disorder”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC...
  3. (rare, transitive) To astonish, amaze.
    • Is it not a fact that the miners of this country are bewildered and bewitched and do not know what is to happen?1967 May 9, Eldon Wylie Griffiths, “Fuel And Power Policy”, in parliamentary debates (UK House Of Commons), volume 746, column 1260

bewitch meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

bewitch in Hindi

to bewitch, to do magic
जादू करना jādū karnā
to bewitch
जादूटोना करना jādūṭonā karnā

bewitch in Urdu

جادوکرنا, سحر کرنا

bewitch in Bengali

মোহিত করা, মুগ্ধ করা, জাদু করা, মন্ত্রমুগ্ধ করা

bewitch in Malayalam

മന്ത്രവാദത്തിലൂടെ വശീകരിക്കുക
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bewitch in Kannada
ಮರುಳುಮಾಡು, ಮೋಡಿ ಹಾಕು, ಮರುಳಿಸು, ಮರುಳ್ಮಾಡು

Examples of bewitch in a sentence

  • But above all beware never to look the Fairy of the Dawn in the face, for she has eyes that will bewitch you, and glances that will befool you.1901, Andrew Lang, “The Fairy of the Dawn”, in The Violet Fairy Book:
  • She so bewitched the whole princely race that six different princes, although each was married to a young wife, remained childless.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 93:

Synonyms of bewitch

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Forms of bewitch

third-person singular presentbewitches
present participlebewitching
past participlebewitched
pastbewitched

Past tense of bewitch: bewitched

Origin of bewitch

From Middle English bewicchen, bewycchen, biwicchen, equivalent to be- + witch.

Words formed from bewitch

Words that rhyme with bewitch

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Questions about bewitch

What does bewitch mean?
Bewitch means to cast a spell upon.
What is bewitch in Hindi?
Bewitch in Hindi is जादू करना (jādū karnā), जादूटोना करना (jādūṭonā karnā). See Bewitch meaning in Hindi.
How do you use bewitch in a sentence?
But above all beware never to look the Fairy of the Dawn in the face, for she has eyes that will bewitch you, and glances that will befool you.
What part of speech is bewitch?
Bewitch is a verb.
How do you pronounce bewitch?
Bewitch is pronounced /bəˈwɪt͡ʃ/.
What is the past tense of bewitch?
The past tense of bewitch is bewitched.

Words near bewitch in the dictionary

  1. bewished
  2. bewishes
  3. bewishing
  4. bewist
  5. bewit
  6. bewitch
  7. bewitch'd
  8. bewitchable
  9. bewitched
  10. bewitchedly
  11. bewitchedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bewitch (page history and authors); जादू करना (Hindi) (page history and authors); bewitch (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bewitch (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bewitch (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bewitch (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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