Bewitch

Definitions: Bewitch

Bewitch

Verb

1. Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts".

2. Attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks".

3. Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something.

Date "bewitch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Bewitch \Be*witch"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Bewitched; present participle verb or noun Bewitching.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Bewitch

Synonyms: becharm (v), beguile (v), captivate (v), capture (v), catch (v), charm (v), enamor (v), enamour (v), enchant (v), entrance (v), fascinate (v), glamour (v), hex (v), jinx (v), magnetize (v), mesmerise (v), mesmerize (v), spellbind (v), trance (v), witch (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Love	Excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.
Motive	Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).
Pain	Please, charm, delight, becharm, imparadise; gladden; (make cheerful); take, captivate, fascinate; enchant, entrance, enrapture, transport, bewitch; enravish.
Sorcery	Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bewitch

English words defined with "bewitch": Effascinate ♦ Forspeak ♦ Maleficiate ♦ voodoo. (references)

Etymologies containing "bewitch": Maleficiate. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I can teach you how to bewitch the mind, and ensnare the senses. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	60 Sexy Spells of Seduction: All You Need to Bewitch Your Ideal Love (reference) How to Bewitch (reference) Love Potions & Charms: Over 50 Ways to Seduce, Bewitch, and Cherish Your Lover (Barron's Educational Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Purr; meow; content; rumble; appease; bewitch; captivate; charm; delight; enrapture; gladden; gratify; humor; indulge; make happy; mollify; placate; reconcile; satisfy; suffice; thrill; tickle; please; feline.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Francis Bacon	None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Bewitch" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Bewitch" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.78%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	22.22%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "bewitch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		beheks (delude), begogel (delude), begoël (delude). (various references)

Albanian		tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), magjeps (captivate, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, hex, infatuate, ravish, spellbind), josh (attract, charm, dangle, dazzle, decoy, deprave, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, lure away, seduce, tempt, vamp, wile). (various references)

Arabic		‏فتن (captivate, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, enthralling, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, infatuate, love, magnetize, mesmerize, ravish, rejoice, seduce, smite, spellbind, tempt, thrill, witch), ‏سحر (attractiveness, bedevil, bewitchment, catch, charm, conjure, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, magnetize, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, overlook, pleasantness, prestige, quaintness, ravishment, relish, smite, sorcery, spell, spellbind, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest), ‏خلب النظر, ‏خلب اللب, ‏أخذ بالعين. (various references)

Bulgarian		очаровам (captivate, charm, delight, ecstasize, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, fascinate, glamor, glamour, ravish, spellbind, take captive), омагьосвам (bedevil, charm, enchant, glamor, glamour, hoodoo, spellbind, voodoo, witch). (various references)

Chinese		� �惑 (enchant). (various references)

Czech		zaklít (cuss), okouzlit (beguile, charm, enamor, enamour, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, glamorize, spell, spellbind, transport), oèarovat (enchant, spellbind, witch). (various references)

Dutch		heksen. (various references)

Esperanto		sorĉi, ensorĉi (delude). (various references)

Faeroese		ganda. (various references)

Farsi		فریفتن (Captivate, Charm, Deceive, Decoy, Doodle, Enchant, Entice, Hustle, Intrigue, Inveigle, Jilt, Lure, Poop, Seduce, Skunk, Tempt, Wile), مسحورکردن (Bedevil, Charm, Ravish), افسون کردن (Enchant, Voodoo, Witch). (various references)

Finnish		taikoa (conjure, practise witchcraft, use magic). (various references)

French		ensorceler. (various references)

Frisian		toverje. (various references)

German		verzaubern (cast a spell over, delude, enchant, put a spell on), verhexen (bedevil, cast a spell over, delude, hex, jinx, put a jinx on, to jinx). (various references)

Greek		γοητεύω (bedevil, beguile, charm, enchant, enrapture, enthral, fascinate, hex, mesmerize, ravish, spell, witch), μαγεύω (charm, hex, vamp, witch). (various references)

Hebrew		לקסום (captivate, cast a spell on, charm, divine, enchant, fascinate), לכשף (charm, enchant, spell). (various references)

Hungarian		megront (blight, corrupt, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, infect, pervert, pollute, seduce, to canker, to debauch, to deprave, to deteriorate, to hex, to pervert, to seduce sy, to taint, to violate, to vitiate, to voodoo, to warp, vitiate), megbabonáz (bedevil, enchant, to bewitch, to charm, to enchant, to hex, to mesmerize), elbûvöl (enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate). (various references)

Indonesian		menggiurkan (entrance, rapturous, ravish, whet), mempesona (breathtaking). (various references)

Italian		stregare (hex, witches), incantare (be charmed, be spellbound, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, spell, spellbind), ammaliare (charm, enchant), affascinare (allure, captivate, catch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, intrigue, lead away, spellbind, take). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		悩殺 (enchant, fascinate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		のうさつ (enchant, fascinate, votive card or tablet). (various references)

Manx		druightey, cur fo obbeeys, cur druiaght er (captivate), buitchal. (various references)

Norwegian		forhekse. (various references)

Papiamen		tover. (various references)

Pig Latin		ewitchbay

Portuguese		fascinar (alluring, becharm, captivate, charm, entrance examination, fascinate, fascinating, glamor, glamour, lure, magnetize), enfeitiçar (enchant, enthral, enthrall, glamorise, glamourize, spell, voodoo), encantar (allure, appeal, becharm, charm, conjure, delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinated, fetch, flatter, glamor, glamour, lure, rapture), cativar (captivate, catch, charm, conciliate, enamour, encaenia, enthral, enthrall, magnetize, win). (various references)

Romanian		vrãji (allure, bedevil, cast a glamour over, cast a spell upon, charm, enchant, enrapture, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, lure, spell, spellbind), fermeca (allure, bedevil, captivate, carry, cast a spell upon, charm, conjure, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fascinate, fetch, lure, smite, spell, spellbind, take), fascina (charm, fascinate, glamor, glamour, magnetize, mesmerize), încânta (captivate, charm, delight, delude, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, get over, glamor, glamour, gratify, imparadise, ravish, seduce, smite). (various references)

Russian		восхищать (delight, enrapture, entrance, ravish), очаровать, заколдовать (cast a spell), пленять (captivate). (various references)

Scottish		gon (annoy; bewitch, blast, wound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		začarati, omađijati. (various references)

Spanish		embrujar (haunt, hex). (various references)

Sranan		obya. (various references)

Swedish		förtrolla (captivate, charm, enchant, enthrall, fascinate, infatuate, spellbind), förhäxa (cast a spell on, enchant, overlook). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้หลงเสน่ห์. (various references)

Turkish		büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch), büyü yapmak (glamorize, hex, hoodoo, jinx, practise sorcery, put a jinx on, voodoo, witch), afsunlamak (conjure, enchant, hex). (various references)

Ukranian		обворожити, зачаровувати (allure, beguile, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, philter, philtre, spell), полонити (captivate, capture, charm). (various references)

Welsh		swyno (beguile, charm, enchant), rheibio (ravage, raven, ravish), llygad-dynnu (bamboozle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	defigunt, defixae, defixi, defixisti, defixit, defixos, dementasset, dementes, devorant, devorat, devoratis, devota, devoverat, devoverunt, devovimus, fascinatio, fascinavit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bewitch": bewitched, bewitcheries, bewitchery, bewitches, bewitching, bewitchingly, bewitchment, bewitchments. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bewitch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bawaeth, Bawsinch, Begwith, beitch, betwitch, boitch, Boswith, Bowditch, Brewitt, Gewirth, repitch. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bewitch" (pronounced buwi"kh)
3	-w i" kh	switch, twitch, which, wich, witch.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-i-t-w"
	-2 letters: bitch, ethic, twice, wecht, white, witch, withe.
	-3 letters: beth, bice, bite, chew, chit, cite, etch, etic, itch, thew, whet, whit, wich, wite, with.
	-4 letters: bet, bit, chi, eth, het, hew, hic, hie, hit, ice, ich, tew, the, tic, tie, web, wet, wit.
	-5 letters: be, bi, eh, et, he, hi, it, ti, we.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-i-t-w"
	+2 letters: bewitched, bewitches.
	+3 letters: bewitchery, bewitching, switchable.
	+4 letters: bewitchment, birdwatcher, switchblade.
	+5 letters: bewitcheries, bewitchingly, bewitchments, birdwatchers, switchbacked, switchblades.
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