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witch

/wɪt͡ʃ/noun, verb1 syllable

Witch means: cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something.

Synonyms for witch25

noun, as in an ugly evil-looking old woman

hag, beldam, beldame, crone

noun, as in a female sorcerer or magician

enchantress

verb, as in cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

hex, bewitch, glamour, enchant, jinx

also used for witch

old woman, wizardess, sorceress, wizard, sorcerer, warlock, magician, ugly woman, shrew, white sole, bespell, bechat, becry, beglammer, conjure

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What does witch mean?5

verb

1

cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

noun

1

an ugly evil-looking old woman

2

a female sorcerer or magician

3

a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil

4

a female believer in Wicca

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with witch?15

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Witch in a sentence

  • Between ourselves, the fat ugly witch is on a diet.unknown
  • Just between you and me, that fat ugly witch is on a diet.GaryM
  • Then the witch placed her cauldron on the fire, to prepare the magic draught.Hybrid
  • The wicked witch disguised herself as a pitiful, old woman to deceive the princess.DostKaplan
  • The nurse was a witch, though the king did not know it.Hybrid
  • If you're really a witch, where's your broomstick?Hybrid
  • The witch lived in a gingerbread house in the middle of the forest.maaster
  • The witch mounted her broomstick and flew off into the sky.Hybrid

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of witch

as a noun

plural
witches

as a verb

third-person singular
witches
present participle
witching
past participle
witched
past tense
witched