bewitched

[ bih-wicht ]

adjective

1. affected by or as if by witchcraft or magic; under a spell:

   They heard strange stories from the local people about the house; someone said it was a bewitched house, that it was cursed.

2. enchanted, charmed, or fascinated by someone or something:

   On the second-last number, as the concert reached its crescendo, he invited a bewitched audience to join in with the chorus.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of bewitch ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·be·witched adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bewitched¹

bewitch ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

In Episode 1, the bewitched Agatha peers into what appears to be a child’s room in her house.

From Los Angeles Times

He said it was she who first bewitched him when he worked as a page in the stacks of the Johns Hopkins University library in Baltimore as an undergraduate.

From New York Times

She’d bewitched England while she was alive, and on canvas she had the same magnetic effect.

From Literature

He owns more than a thousand of them - although he only plays a select few on stage - and, even as he approaches 80, the star is still bewitched by the instrument.

From BBC

It’s wired somewhere deep into our caveman brain — we’re bewitched by calamity.

From Los Angeles Times