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Bewitching

Bewitching \Be*witch"ing\, a. Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.

Bewitching

Bewitch \Be*witch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bewitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Bewitching.]

  1. To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

    See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up.
    --Shak.

  2. To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.

    The charms of poetry our souls bewitch.
    --Dryden.

    Syn: To enchant; captivate; charm; entrance.

Wiktionary
bewitching

a. Enchanting. n. The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.

WordNet
bewitching

adj. capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman" [syn: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating]

Usage examples of "bewitching".

She was sitting there, wet and bedraggled as a drowned cat, and yet this handsome stranger was looking at her as if she was the most bewitching woman he had ever encountered.

Except where poverty or sickness prevails, the winter evenings among the mountains have something bewitching about them.

The indictment also contain a charge against her for bewitching David Jones to death, by kissing his hand through the prison grating.

There was so much attachment to Captain Wentworth in all this, and such a bewitching charm in a degree of hospitality so uncommon, so unlike the usual style of give-and-take invitations, and dinners of formality and display, that Anne felt her spirits not likely to be benefited by an increasing acquaintance among his brother-officers.

Slowly, dreamily, she drifted into a new dream where strange beasts -half-horse half-man - ran through forest trails, and dryads, beautiful and bewitching, sat by sparkling streams.

He cursed the hunger that licked at his vitals like the flames of Hell, cursed himself for what he was, cursed Rhianna for bewitching him, for giving him a taste of what he could never have.