Infatuate

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  • transitive verb. To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.
  • transitive verb. To cause to behave foolishly.
  • adjective. Infatuated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make foolish; reduce to foolishness, or show the foolishness of.
  • To affect with folly; inspire with an extravagant or foolish passion beyond the control of reason; excite to extravagant feeling or action: as, to be infatuated with pride, or with a woman.
  • Infatuated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment.
  • transitive verb. To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion.
  • adjective. Infatuated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
  • Word Usage
    "It will be a remarkable woman that will ever infatuate him now."
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    arouse  elicit  enkindle  evoke  fire  
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