magic spell

collocation in English

meaningsofmagicandspell

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magic
adjective
uk
/ˈmædʒ.ɪk/us
/ˈmædʒ.ɪk/
with ...
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spell
noun[C]
uk
/spel/us
/spel/
a period of time for which an activity or condition ...
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(Definition ofmagicandspellfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmagic spell

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Prospero would have been left alone in his cell, waiting for a voice that could invest hismagicspell with sufficient skill to make the audience begin their applause.
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It has proved to be amagicspell.
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Themagicspellof prosperity has been broken at last.
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I am rather nervous of these abstract nouns, particularly when they are pronounced like a sort ofmagicspellor a benediction.
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One night they appealed to the enchantress by the use of amagicspell.
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Once the yam houses are full, a man performs a specialmagicspellfor the hamlet that wards off hunger by making people feel full.
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She also verifies this by performing a simplemagicspell, one she recalls from her childhood.
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He also has the ability to talk and can cast magic by writing down amagicspellonto the paper, though he sometimes makes mistakes.
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This creates a base of amagicspellthat can be duplicated and used in battle.
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According to themagicspell, if you kiss someone while eating mint candy, you and that person can be one.
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He was given cloven hooves as a sign of his inner evil, and could cast eachmagicspellonly once.
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Each of the five charms provides amagicspell, and the words to trigger these spells are common placeholder names.
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In fantasy, invisibility is often invoked and dismissed at will, with amagicspell, a potion or a ring.
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The player's creatures can either fight, run away from battle, or cast amagicspell.
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Mutant classes may evolve at this point, randomly gaining either increased statistics or a new randommagicspellor ability, possibly overwriting an existing one.
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