Fascinate vs Becharm - What's the difference?
fascinate | becharm |
To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
To be irresistibly charming or attractive to
(archaic) To charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.
*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) Chapter 135
*:Ahab knew that the whale had sounded; but intending to be near him at the next rising, he held on his way a little sideways from the vessel; the becharmed crew maintaining the profoundest silence, as the head-bent waves hammered and hammered against the opposing bow.
As verbs the difference between fascinate and becharm
is that fascinate is to evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone while becharm is to charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.fascinate
English
Verb
(fascinat)- The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
- We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
- Her gait fascinates all men.