infatuate
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The fictional robots of cinema are useful machines with dark potential to infatuate, deceive and destroy human beings.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2017
Yet one number continues to confound and infatuate them: five.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 2, 2014
Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
But infatuate flowers deep drunken of dew Repeated these tales to the light swaying breeze— Rebellious winds listening swift caught them up And sang them o'er earth, o'er the mountains and seas!
From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
The vehicle was carrying the girl he was infatuated with and her date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Inde Navarrette has earned particular plaudits for her role as a young woman who becomes dangerously infatuated with a man, played by Michael Johnston, after he makes a magical wish for her affection.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
So infatuated was he with California that one British political commentator dubbed the Cameron administration’s philosophy ”Thatcherism on a surfboard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Investors infatuated with tech have ignored fossil fuels, but that isn’t the main reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The people were infatuated with Buttercup now as they had never been before her kidnapping.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Its rollout led with “Ace Trumpets” and the infatuating “So Be It.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
On these occasions he’d shoot me an infatuating little smile.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2019
Listening to a great podcast can feel like falling into conversation with a new best friend or eavesdropping on an infatuating crush.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2016
Shelley's charisma is here, as well as his unpredictable moods; Claire Clairmont is infatuating and infuriating in equal measure.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
Undo thine arms and let me see the sky, By this infatuating flame obscured.
From The Unknown Eros by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Vocabulary lists containing infatuate
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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