charmeth

Verb

charm (third-person singular simple present charms, present participle charming, simple past and past participle charmed)

1. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
   • He charmed her with his dashing tales of his days as a sailor.

   Synonyms:

   delight, enchant, enamor, entrance, fetch

2. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on.
   • After winning three games while wearing the chain, Dan began to think it had been charmed.

   Synonyms:

   bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspell

3. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
   • She led a charmed life.
4. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
   • But ah my corage cooles ere it be warme, / For thy, content vs in thys humble ſhade: / Where no ſuch troublous tydes han vs aſſayde, / Here we our ſlender pipes may ſafely charme.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “October. Ægloga Decima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 42, recto
5. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
   • Music the fierceſt griefs can charm, / And fate's ſevereſt rage diſarm: […]1687 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, canto VII, page...

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