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infatuate

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  • v  arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
    His new car has infatuated him
    love has infatuated her

  • Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate.
  • Chuck Crawford, who combined the curly poll and hyperthyroid eyes of Huey Long with the minnesinging methods of "Pappy" O'Daniel, was crook and virtuoso enough to infatuate Tyler.
  • A train wreck a century and a half ago sent Herman Melville into this eloquent rant: "Two infatuate trains ran pell-mell into each other, and climbed and clawed each other's backs .

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