charmed

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tʃɑːmd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹmd/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md
• Hyphenation: charmed

charmed (comparative more charmed, superlative most charmed)

1. Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.
2. Having great good fortune, as though magically wrought.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Draw forth thy ſword, thou mightie man at armes,
     Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin:
     And Ioue himſelfe will ſtretch his hand from heauen,
     To ward the blow, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 218:

     ‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’

3. Impressed by the pleasantness of something.

   You are very gracious; I am charmed by your personality.

4. (physics) Of a particle: having nonzero charm.

charmed

1. simple past tense and past participle of charm

• decharm, demarch, drachme, marched