witch
巫婆,巫师,女巫,魔女
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Definitions
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- : a person, now especially a woman, who professes or is supposed to practice magic or sorcery; a sorceress.Compare warlock.
- : a woman who is supposed to have evil or wicked magical powers: witches in black robes and pointed hats.
- : an ugly or mean old woman; hag: the old witch who used to own this building.
- : a person who uses a divining rod; dowser.
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- : to bring by or as by witchcraft: She witched him into going.
- : Archaic. to affect as if by witchcraft; bewitch; charm.
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- : to prospect with a divining rod; dowse.
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- : of, relating to, or designed as protection against witches.
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You would think I’d be sick of reading about catastrophes after a god-awful year, but I found Gabbert’s collection of essays about our darkest moments, including September 11, Chernobyl, witch hunts, and, yes, pandemics, to be strangely comforting.
He also asks about quitting, witch trials, and whether we need a Manhattan Project for climate change.
He still loves Halloween, and this Saturday his house’s decorations will be themed around the “Hocus Pocus” witches.
TikTok, with its 49 million daily users in the US, is impossibly diverse, a home for comedians and singers and witches and police officers and protesters.
Mulan runs away from home to take her father’s place in the army and fight a powerful witch.
He once experimented with dressing as “Hilda the Wicked Witch” as a way to expand his business to Halloween.
Breitbart forced her to correct a small part of her story, but witch hunts like these will leave every victim cowering.
In her mind, the entire ordeal was a witch-hunt led by the local authorities.
She faces a jury of famous villains and a judge from the Salem witch trials.
Likewise, pressure must be placed on Egypt to abandon its witch hunt of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Belle, my mother, and I rode home about midnight in a fine display of lightning and witch-fires.
But the Witch was more furious than ever, and as soon as I raised my axe to chop, it twisted around and cut off one of my arms.
The Witch did not wish me to marry the girl, so she enchanted my sword, which began hacking me to pieces.
It was while she was away on this errand that Dorothy's house fell on the Wicked Witch, and she turned to dust and blew away.
Halgernon was a barrystir—that is, he lived in Pump Cort, Temple: a wulgar naybrood, witch praps my readers don't no.