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CHARMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with wonder and delight
Synonyms:
beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced
Classified under:
Similar:
enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Strongly attracted
Synonyms:
captivated; charmed
Classified under:
Similar:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb charm
Context examples:
Little Teddy bore a charmed life, for nothing ever happened to him, and Jo never felt any anxiety when he was whisked up into a tree by one lad, galloped off on the back of another, or supplied with sour russets by his indulgent papa, who labored under the Germanic delusion that babies could digest anything, from pickled cabbage to buttons, nails, and their own small shoes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I did as she bade me—rewarding myself afterwards for my obedience—and she charmed me out of my graver character for I don't know how long.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My skill, greater in this one point than theirs, surprised and charmed them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The South Seas charmed him no more than did bourgeois civilization.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
That it should be as vital as possible, it required no more than that the woman should be Maud Brewster, who now charmed me in person as she had long charmed me through her work.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Miss Lee taught her French, and heard her read the daily portion of history; but he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment: he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The arrival of a new family in the country was always a matter of joy to him, and in every point of view he was charmed with the inhabitants he had now procured for his cottage at Barton.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Feeling almost happy again, she laid by a few ferns and roses for herself, and quickly made up the rest in dainty bouquets for the breasts, hair, or skirts of her friends, offering them so prettily that Clara, the elder sister, told her she was 'the sweetest little thing she ever saw', and they looked quite charmed with her small attention.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was charmed with her childish, winning way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
