AS IF BY MAGIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does as if by magic mean? 

• AS IF BY MAGIC (adverb)
  The adverb AS IF BY MAGIC has 1 sense:

1. in a magical manner

  Familiarity information: AS IF BY MAGIC used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AS IF BY MAGIC (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a magical manner

Synonyms:

as if by magic; magically

Context example:

it disappeared magically

 Context examples 

He just knows that he was lifted up as if by magic and dropped as if by magic.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he spoke several of the beasts caught sight of him, and at once the great assemblage hushed as if by magic.

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

I went to bed, exceedingly weary and heavy; but, on my lying down, all such sensations vanished, as if by magic, and I was broad awake, with every sense refined.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before we had taken many paces down the street beyond it, the noise of the city seemed to melt, as if by magic, into a softened distance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)