Bewitch vs. Witch — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bewitch and Witch
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Definitions
Bewitch➦
Bewitch (1945–1959) was a Thoroughbred race horse born in 1945 at Calumet Farm, Kentucky, United States in the same crop in which the stallion Bull Lea produced Citation and Coaltown. Each of them was eventually inaugurated into the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame.
Witch➦
A person, especially a woman, claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.
Bewitch➦
To place under one's power by magic; cast a spell over.
Witch➦
A believer or follower of Wicca; a Wiccan.
Bewitch➦
To captivate completely; fascinate.
Witch➦
(Offensive) An old woman considered to be ugly or frightening.
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Bewitch➦
(transitive) To cast a spell upon.
Witch➦
A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
Bewitch➦
(transitive) To fascinate or charm.
I was bewitched by the sight of the girl dancing in the forest.
Witch➦
(Informal) A woman or girl considered to be charming or fascinating.
Bewitch➦
(transitive) To astonish, amaze. en
Witch➦
One particularly skilled or competent at one's craft
"A witch of a writer, [she] is capable of developing an intensity that verges on ferocity" (Peter S. Prescott).
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Bewitch➦
To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
See how I am bewitched; behold, mine armIs like a blasted sapling withered up.
Witch➦
To work or cast a spell on; bewitch.
Bewitch➦
To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.
The charms of poetry our souls bewitch.
Witch➦
To cause, bring, or effect by witchcraft.
Bewitch➦
Attract; cause to be enamored;
She captured all the men's hearts
Witch➦
To use a divining rod to find underground water or minerals; dowse.
Bewitch➦
Attract strongly, as if with a magnet;
She magnetized the audience with her tricks
Witch➦
A person who practices witchcraft.
Bewitch➦
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
Witch➦
(now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
Witch➦
An ugly or unpleasant woman.
I hate that old witch.
Witch➦
One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
Witch➦
One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
Witch➦
(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
Witch➦
The storm petrel.
Witch➦
Any of a number of flatfish:
Witch➦
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
Witch➦
Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
Witch➦
Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
Witch➦
The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
Witch➦
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
Witch➦
(intransitive) To dowse for water.
Witch➦
To practise witchcraft.
Witch➦
(transitive) To bewitch.
Witch➦
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
Witch➦
One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; - now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch.
He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.
Witch➦
An ugly old woman; a hag.
Witch➦
One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; - said especially of a woman or child.
Witch➦
A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
Witch➦
The stormy petrel.
Witch➦
A Wiccan; an adherent or practitioner of Wicca, a religion which in different forms may be paganistic and nature-oriented, or ditheistic. The term witch applies to both male and female adherents in this sense.
Witch➦
To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
Whether within us or withoutThe spell of this illusion beThat witches us to hear and see.
Witch➦
A female sorcerer or magician
Witch➦
A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
Witch➦
An ugly evil-looking old woman
Witch➦
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something