Word Meanings - COUNTERCHARM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To destroy the effect of a charm upon.

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• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• CHARMLESS
  Destitute of charms. Swift.
• CHARMER
  1. One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. Deut. xviii. 11. 2. One who delights and attracts the affections.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• EFFECTER
  One who effects.
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• EFFECTUOUSLY
  Effectively.
• EFFECTUATION
  Act of effectuating.
• EFFECTIBLE
  Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.
• EFFECTUAL
  Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. Shak. Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion. Macaulay. Effectual calling , a doctrine concerning the work of the
• DESTROYER
  One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• CHARMFUL
  Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.
• CHARMERESS
  An enchantress. Chaucer.
• CHARM
  1. To make music upon; to tune. Here we our slender pipes may safely charm. Spenser. 2. To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. No witchcraft charm thee! Shak. 3. To subdue or overcome by some
• EFFECTIVE
  Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment. They are not effective of anything, nor leave no
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• BECHARM
  To charm; to captivate.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• COUNTERCHARM
  To destroy the effect of a charm upon.
• INEFFECTUALLY
  Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
• INEFFECTUALNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
• NONEFFECTIVE
  Not fit or available for duty. (more info) 1. Not effective.
• UNCHARM
  To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant. Beau. & Fl.