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单词 witch
释义
witch
noun[C]
uk
/wɪtʃ/us
/wɪtʃ/
C1
a woman who isbelievedto havemagicalpowersand who uses them toharmorhelpotherpeople:
女巫，巫婆
a witch on abroomstick骑着扫把的女巫
Witches werepersecutedall overwesternEuropefrom the 15th to the 17thcentury, as it wasclaimedthat they haddealingswith the Devil.从15世纪到17世纪，整个西欧的女巫都受到迫害，因为据称她们与魔鬼有来往。
informaldisapproving
anunpleasantanduglywoman
讨厌且丑陋的女人
More examples
  • In thestory, awickedwitch put acurseon theprincessfor 100years.
  • The witch put amagicspellon theprinceandturnedhim into afrog.
  • Thecentralcharacteris amalevolentwitch out forrevenge.
  • The witchcast/put aspellon theprinceand heturnedinto afrog.
  • Ofcourse, in the end, thewickedwitch getskilled.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People who perform magic or have paranormal abilities
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  • illusionist
  • mage
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  • psychic
  • seer
  • shaman
  • soothsayer
  • sorcerer
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(Definition ofwitchfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

witch| American Dictionary

witch
noun[C]
us
/wɪtʃ/
a woman who isbelievedto havemagicalpowersand,esp. instories, uses them tohelporharmpeople
(Definition ofwitchfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In 1570-1, however, the human subterfuge was replaced by 'a wider, more stereotypical malicious use of poisonous grease by witches ' (p. 149).
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He is clear that this is not an ' ancient religion ' in the sense which most witches still claim.
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The most vexing problem the witches presented was their destabilising of such terms as 'realistic' and 'fantastic', or 'fatal' and 'trivial'.
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Women in textbooks are most likely to appear in traditional roles, such as a farmer, or as mythological figures, such as witches.
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Secondly, there is the group of umfield sites connected with sagas about witches and, occasionally, the devil.
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In every continent traditions have been recorded in which witches, although operating within set customs of their kind, do so individually and alone.
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At each harvest, the total number of fruits and the number of fruits infected with witches' broom per plot were recorded.
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They identified witches, detected thieves and aided lovers.
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His witches gain a certain strength from having their coarseness so blatant.
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The mid-twentieth-century critics are offended precisely because they don't want witches to sound trivial.
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Just as political and religious power are comparable, so too are the actions of covens of witches and exclusive groups of plotters and putschists.
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At the same time the commission acknowledged that it is difficult to detect witches, as their crimes cannot be witnessed by the naked eye.
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The two collections of essays present the findings of research into midwives, folk healers, matchmakers, witches and women's religious communities.
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In other words, they were not real men but first-class witches.
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Master witches, according to the authors' conclusion, were like other witches.
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