Voodoo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, syncretized from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. Also called vodoun.
  • n. A charm, fetish, spell, or curse holding magic power for adherents of voodoo.
  • n. A practitioner, priest, or priestess of voodoo.
  • n. Deceptive or delusive nonsense.
  • v. To place under the influence of a spell or curse; bewitch.
  • adj. Of or relating to the beliefs or practices of voodoo.
  • adj. Based on unrealistic or delusive assumptions: voodoo economics.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A religion of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin.
  • n. Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.
  • n. Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.
  • v. To enchant someone or something using voodoo
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See voodooism.
  • n. One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A common name among creoles and in many of the southern United States for any practicer of malicious, defensive, amatory, healing, or soothsaying enchantments, charms, witchcrafts, or secret rites, especially when they are tinctured with African superstitions and customs; especially, one who makes such practices a business.
  • n. The same title transferred by voodoos to a personal evil spirit supreme among evil powers.
  • n. plural The practicers of voodoo rites as a collective body.
  • Pertaining to or associated with the superstitions and peculiar practices of the voodoos: as, a voodoo dance (a violent indecent dance belonging to the secret nocturnal ceremonies of the voodoos); a voodoo doctor, or voodoo priest (the terms most commonly used in creole countries for any professional voodoo); voodoo king or queen (the person who, by a certain vague election and tenure, holds for life a local preëminence and some slight, authority over all voodoos of the surrounding country).
  • To affect by voodoo conjuration or charms.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
  • n. a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities
  • v. bewitch by or as if by a voodoo
  • n. (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities
  • Verb Form
    voodooed    voodooing    voodoos   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    charm    good luck charm    glamour    bewitch    hex-    witch    jinx    enchant    cult   
    Cross Reference
    hoodoo   
    Variant
    voodooism   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Magi    voodooism   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arcane    funerary    Aztec    tantric    Eleusinian    Woodstock    orgiastic    Haitian    satanic    druid