infatuate

[ US /ˌɪnˈfætʃuˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
    love has infatuated her
    His new car has infatuated him
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How To Use infatuate In A Sentence

  • In the meantime, audacious scribblers arise, as from our own bosom, who not only obscure the light of sound doctrine with clouds of error, or infatuate the simple and the less experienced with their wicked ravings, but by a profane license of skepticism, allow themselves to uproot the whole of Religion. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
  • Marc is infatuated by Uva who, when she reappears finally, no longer matches the fantasy he has constructed for her.
  • She who accompanies me in my rambles over the town often takes photographs of the places dearest to me; but her pictures show not what I behold, and she wonders what it can be that so infatuates me. Confessions of Boyhood
  • Uhhh, Walters says she was "infatuated" with Brooke. John Ridley: Remind Me Never to Have an Affair with Barbara Walters
  • But someone new who is infatuated with you gives you a very attractive image of yourself.
  • To such a degree does blind fury infatuate men, when once the vehemence of contention has prevailed, that they carelessly despise death, when placed before their eyes. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
  • His new car has infatuated him
  • Well, it was time for lunch and maybe Kate and Marie could provide some information about this guy she was so infatuated with.
  • After much persuasion, I went on the ice myself; though not without considerable fear; yet such a favourite sport is this with the English, and so infatuated are some of these _ice players_, that nothing will deter them from venturing on those places which are marked as dangerous; and thus many perish, like moths that sacrifice themselves in the candle flame. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
  • Still a teenager, Lou became infatuated with her newfound benefactor and yielded to his seductions.
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