infatuate
[verb]
Synonyms: obsess, besot, bewitch, captivate, enchant, enrapture, fascinate

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infatuate adjective & noun. [ɪn'fatjʊǝt, -tʃʊ-] L15.
[Latin infatuatus pa. pple, formed as INFATUATE verb: see -ATE², -ATE¹.]
A. adjective. Infatuated. Now rare. L15.
■ M. Beerbohm The young man,..at once thrifty and infatuate, had planned a luncheon à deux.
b. noun. An infatuated person. M20.

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infatuate verb trans. [ɪn'fatjʊeɪt, -tʃʊ-] M16.
[Latin infatuat- pa. ppl stem of infatuare, formed as IN-² + FATUOUS: see -ATE³.]
1. Reduce to foolishness, show the foolishness of; frustrate, bring to nothing. M16-E18.
■ R. Younge That I have unmasked their faces, is to infatuate their purpose.

2. Orig., make foolish or fatuous, inspire with folly. Now chiefly, inspire with an intense esp. amorous and usu. transitory passion. M16.
■ R. Warner He was, it was said, quite ridiculously infatuated with the lady.
■ I. Murdoch You're just infatuated with Oxford, you think it's all so impressive and grand.

■ infatuatedly adverb in an infatuated manner M19.

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