Definition of "bewitch"

bewitch

/bəˈwɪt͡ʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present bewitches, present participle bewitching, simple past and past participle bewitched
1. (transitive) To cast a spell upon.
  Quotations
  Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, […]
  1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], page 10
  But above all beware never to look the Fairy of the Dawn in the face, for she has eyes that will bewitch you, and glances that will befool you.
  1901, Andrew Lang, “The Fairy of the Dawn”, in The Violet Fairy Book‎
2. (transitive) To fascinate or charm.
3. (transitive) To astonish, amaze.

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