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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bewitch.

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Examples

  • Lajos’s presence bewitches everyone, and the greatest part of his charmand his dangerlies in the deftness with which he wields that delicate power.

    Esther's Inheritance by Sandor Marai: Book summary 2010

  • "Hoffman's shimmering, multigenerational melodrama bewitches with supernatural imagery."

    Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman: Book summary 2010

  • Marie Dubois, one of the leads in Mr. Truffaut's "Shoot the Piano Player" the previous year, has an amusing cameo as Thérèse, the good-time girl who bewitches Jim for a spell.

    For the Love of a Fickle Woman Peter Cowie 2012

  • Although Heinrich Mann's magnum opus was a two-volume historical novel that he wrote during his French exile in the 1930s—about Henry IV and his exemplary act of tolerance, the 1598 Edict of Nantes—Heinrich was best-known from his novel "Professor Unrat": It was the basis for "The Blue Angel," the 1930 movie starring Marlene Dietrich as a young nightclub singer who bewitches a seemingly staid academic.

    The Other Mann Martin Rubin 2011

  • Even if she died and was sent to her village and buried, they would say her ghost comes out and bewitches them.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Even if she died and was sent to her village and buried, they would say her ghost comes out and bewitches them.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Even if she died and was sent to her village and buried, they would say her ghost comes out and bewitches them.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • A jeweled knife bewitches anyone who holds it, enticing them to murder.

    Dec. 30th, 2008 - Issue 0.030 z0mbieastronaut 2008

  • She irks as she endears, bemuses as she bewitches.

    Maggie Van Ostrand: That Girl in The Progressive Insurance Commercials 2009

  • Orgon is desperate for affirmation; Tartuffe, who poses as a spiritual vagabond, bewitches the older man.

    Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Tartuffe, Hair 2009

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