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[ noun ] attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
Synonyms Examples "his smile was part of his appeal to her" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)As for the ladies , they were full of charm , and sincerity , and deep and abiding affection for this hurrying driving , honest , little man . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)The already faded pastel charms of the naive music itself vanish entirely in Fistoulari 's melodramatic contrasts between ultra vehement brute power and chilly , if suave , sentimentality . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Yet nationalism has lost few of its charms for the historian , writer or man_in_the_street . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)He had the same bullet_head of curly reddish hair but he did n't have Jim 's poker-faced humor or his brains or his charm . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)Charming and peaceful - but what were charm and peace compared to high adventure ? Related terms |
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[ verb ] attract; cause to be enamored
Examples "She captured all the men's hearts" Used in print (San Francisco Chronicle...)Famed cellist Pablo_Casals took his instrument to the East_Room of the White_House yesterday and charmed the staff with a two-hour rehearsal . (The New York Times...)But , even if Mr._Sansom labors too hard to extract more refinements of meaning and feeling from his travel experiences than the limits of language allow , he still can charm and astound . Related terms attract hold work appeal enchantment fascination captivation charmer smoothie bewitchery captive catch |
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[ noun ] something believed to bring good luck
Synonyms Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)More potent a charm to bring back that time_of_life than this record of a_few pictures and a_few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind , intrinsic , because they were known in_the_beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a verbal formula believed to have magical force
Synonyms Examples "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands" "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese" Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese , a dialect I take it you do n't comprehend . Related terms |
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