BEWITCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bewitched mean? 

• BEWITCHED (adjective)
  The adjective BEWITCHED has 1 sense:

1. captured, as if under a spell

  Familiarity information: BEWITCHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEWITCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Captured, as if under a spell

Synonyms:

bewitched; ensorcelled

Similar:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

Then the parson himself was frightened; and thinking the cow was surely bewitched, told his man to kill her on the spot.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He left her so little leisure for being miserable, that she said next day she thought she must have been bewitched.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Rochester was about forty, and this governess not twenty; and you see, when gentlemen of his age fall in love with girls, they are often like as if they were bewitched.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For a few moments her imagination and her heart were bewitched.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They are bewitched, and are obliged to watch over a great treasure which is below in the tower, and they can have no rest until it is taken away, and I have likewise learnt, from their discourse, how that is to be done.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When you came on me in Hay Lane last night, I thought unaccountably of fairy tales, and had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse: I am not sure yet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am a king’s son, he said, and I was bewitched by that wicked dwarf, who had stolen my treasures; I have had to run about the forest as a savage bear until I was freed by his death.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)