antun

Verb

 * 1) to do something to someone

Usage notes
It often implies the casting of harm, as in general the object is often a kind of ill. “Ich habe ihm nichts angetan.” “Er wird sich etwas antun.” Though as the quoted example shows, this does not need to be so. Also, in a more recent idiomatic and rather colloquial sense deriving from this bewitchment sense used with expletive object it means mere appeal, enthusement. “Das Lied hat es ihm angetan.” And this usage is not only recent. In his poem “Der Rattenfänger” from around 1790, Goethe says of the ratcatcher:

In keinem Städtchen langt er an, Wo er’s nicht mancher angetan.

That is, "in no town does he arrive where he has not captivated many [a maiden]."