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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
infatuate .
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Examples
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Not only is there a designated @rihannanavy Twitter feed "Introducing a new era of fandom" but there's also a preposterous two-minute Navy recruitment video with text that reads: "Her appearance infatuates us, her strength feeds us, her music created us – the Navy wants you."
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We repeat the process, choosing someone who infatuates us.
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They belong to one of his students, a wealthy, charming Cuban-American named Consuela Castillo, whose thrilling desirability enchants, infatuates, and torments Kepesh.
The Nihilist 2001
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They belong to one of his students, a wealthy, charming Cuban-American named Consuela Castillo, whose thrilling desirability enchants, infatuates, and torments Kepesh.
The Nihilist 2001
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Repeat the procedure with someone who infatuates you, to acknowledge the person's negative points and to make the relationship more realistic, with the motivation to stop being insensitive to your needs and behaving self-destructively
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Thus Satan infatuates wicked minds, so that they entangle themselves by frivolous evasions.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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For we know how greatly superstition infatuates the mind.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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This religion which infatuates you is foolishness.
The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome Anonymous
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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 John Albee 1874
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_ -- It is the cry of Satan; and to obtain them he scatters gold to tempt them, multiplies their pleasures and vanities, and gives the praise that only infatuates.
Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life Adrien Sylvain 1870
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