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ENCHANTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Influenced as by charms or incantations
Classified under:
Similar:
beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced (filled with wonder and delight)
bewitched; ensorcelled (captured, as if under a spell)
star-struck (fascinated by a famous person)
fascinated; hypnotised; hypnotized; mesmerised; mesmerized; spell-bound; spellbound; transfixed (having your attention fixated as though by a spell)
Antonym:
disenchanted (freed from enchantment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb enchant
Context examples:
They now proceeded to address divers remarks and reproofs to Miss Smith, who was charged with the care of the linen and the inspection of the dormitories: but I had no time to listen to what they said; other matters called off and enchanted my attention.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince: put me in the water again, and let me go!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I thought of the blue-eyed child who had enchanted me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the evening the young girl and her companion were employed in various occupations which I did not understand; and the old man again took up the instrument which produced the divine sounds that had enchanted me in the morning.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He found it situated, however, on a glass mountain, and looking up from the foot he saw the enchanted maiden drive round her castle and then go inside.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I repair to the enchanted house, where there are lights, chattering, music, flowers, officers (I am sorry to see), and the eldest Miss Larkins, a blaze of beauty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As he jumped upon the shore he saw before him a beautiful castle but empty and dreary within, for it was enchanted.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
There was a lovely garden to Mr. Spenlow's house; and though that was not the best time of the year for seeing a garden, it was so beautifully kept, that I was quite enchanted.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now the white snake was an enchanted princess; and she was very glad to see him, and said, Are you at last come to set me free?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
