CHARM

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Traducere în limba română

charm I. substantiv

1. farmec, vrajă, încântare, descântec;

(despre un medicament) to act like a charm a avea un efect miraculos.

2. plural (fig.) farmece, atracţie; nuri, vino-ncoace, şarm.

3. ciripit.

4. amuletă, talisman; pandantiv.

5. cheie falsă, cheie mincinoasă, şperaclu, paspartu.

6. plural (amer. sl.) bani, lovele, metal.

charm II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a vrăji, a fermeca, a descânta; a conjura.

2. (fig.) a vrăji, a fermeca, a răpi, a cuceri, a subjuga, a încânta.

3. a alina, a potoli, a linişti (o durere).

4. a domestici, a îmblânzi (un şarpe).

5. to charm a secret out of a smulge un secret ca prin farmec.

charm II. verb B. intranzitiv

a face vrăji.

The lady was a charming correspondent.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jane Fairfax is absolutely charming, Miss Woodhouse.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Your loving and compassionate way will make you charming to those you meet this year, and you will make many new friends easily.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Your brother is the most charming of men.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I was a little disappointed, I must confess, but thoroughly charmed by his good-nature too.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Is not he a charming man?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

These, she thought, must be the charm, so she read the directions carefully and put the Cap upon her head.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

They had a charming time, for The Seven Castles Of The Diamond Lake was as brilliant and wonderful as heart could wish.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Her whole face seemed to me full of charm.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)