1. Pleasing or delighting
   "a charming personality"; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"
    
2. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
   "charming incantations";
   - magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly

1. Cause rapt attraction or admiration; attract love
   "She charmed all the men's hearts"; "His charm enamoured everyone he met";
   - capture, enamour [Brit, Cdn], trance [literary], catch, becharm [archaic], enamor [US], captivate, beguile, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant
    
2. Induce into action by using one's charm
   "She charmed him into giving her all his money";
   - influence, tempt
    
3. Control by magic spells, as by practising witchcraft
   "The evil witch charmed the villagers into doing her bidding";
   - becharm [archaic]
    
4. Protect through supernatural powers or charms
   "The amulet was said to charm its wearer against evil"

See also: pleasing, supernatural

Type of: appeal, attract, command, control, persuade, protect

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