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Infatuate

verb

(past & past part. infatuated; pres. part. infatuating)

Arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way. "Love has infatuated her"

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"Infatuate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Comedies so acted, As if your ninefold wit had been compacted. To shew the world, they never saw before, That this one Volume should exhaust your store; His wiser dayes condemned his witty works, Who knows the spels that in his Rhetorick lurks, But some infatuate fools soon caught therein, Fond Cupids Dame had never such a gin, Which makes severer eyes but slight that story, And men of morose minds envy his glory: But he's a Beetle-head that can't descry A world of wealth within ...

— Anne Bradstreet and Her Time • Helen Campbell

... Your friend, the Mademoiselle Pollock, she say you are infatuate wiz me; she send ze picture; she tell me you are ...

— The Cricket • Marjorie Cooke

... for Laurier? Not one more chance, after all the waiting, for him to finish his work? Poor old infatuate! splendid even in his illusions. There was no work for Laurier to do now. There was no room for him to do it if there had been. There were few to follow him except in Quebec—for in his dotage he would not believe that the West had ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

Words linked to "Infatuate" : evoke, fire, arouse, elicit, enkindle, provoke, kindle, infatuation, raise