bewitched

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈwɪt͡ʃt/
• Rhymes: -ɪtʃt
• Hyphenation: be‧witched

Adjective

bewitched (comparative more bewitched, superlative most bewitched)

1. Under a spell; subject to an act of witchcraft.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 157:

     "I have heard my grandmother tell that story, and she used also to tell another about a mill-goblin somewhere up in the country, where no one could get anything ground at the mill, it was so bewitched."

2. (Of a person) entranced, charmed, fascinated, as though subject to a magical influence.

Derived terms

• water bewitched
• widow bewitched

 

Translations

Under a spell; entranced

• Arabic: مَسْحُور (masḥūr)
• Bulgarian: омаян (omajan)
• Catalan: embruixat
• Danish: forhekset
• Finnish: noiduttu, lumottu (fi)
• French: ensorcelé (fr)
• Georgian: მოჯადოებული (moǯadoebuli)
• German: verhext (de), verzaubert (de)
• Hindi: भुतहा (bhuthā)
• Irish: draoighonta
• Italian: stregato (it)
• Portuguese: enfeitiçado (pt) m
• Russian: околдо́ванный (ru) (okoldóvannyj)
• Spanish: embrujado (es), encantado (es), hechizado (es)
• Swedish: förhäxad (sv), förtrollad (sv)
• Welsh: swynedig

Verb

bewitched

1. simple past and past participle of bewitch