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charmed adjective [ tʃɑːmd ]

• (of a person's life or a period of this) unusually lucky or happy as though protected by magic.
• "I felt that I had a charmed life"
• (of a particle) possessing the property charm.
• "a charmed quark"

charmed exclamation

• expressing polite pleasure at an introduction.
• "charmed, I'm sure"

charm verb

• delight greatly.
• "the books have charmed children the world over"
Similar: delight, please, win, win over, appeal to, attract, captivate, allure, lure, draw, dazzle, fascinate, bewitch, beguile, enchant, enthral, enrapture, enamour, seduce, ravish, hypnotize, mesmerize, spellbind, transfix, rivet, grip, rapture,
Opposite: repel,
• control or achieve by or as if by magic.
• "a gesticulating figure endeavouring to charm a cobra"
Origin: Middle English (in the senses ‘incantation or magic spell’ and ‘to use spells’): from Old French charme (noun), charmer (verb), from Latin carmen ‘song, verse, incantation’.


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