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  • adjective Struck by love; smitten.

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Examples

  • In 2001 he played Seymour, a lonely, love-struck record collector in "Ghost World."

    A Working Actor's Star Turn Amy Chozick 2011

  • Benny is terrifically funny as "that great, great actor" Joseph Tura, especially playing opposite Sig Rumann as a Nazi colonel, and a young Robert Stack, the love-struck lieutenant whose cue to tryst with Maria is the first line of Hamlet's soliloquy.

    John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch' John Farr 2011

  • If Kate had been unlucky enough to be of that faith, she would never have been allowed to set foot in Buckingham Palace -- an inconvenient truth, perhaps, and one that is not widely discussed in the ogling media, who are acting collectively like love-struck teenagers.

    Niall O'Dowd: This Royal Wedding Nonsense Cleverly Drowns Out Real Issues Niall O'Dowd 2011

  • Cendrillon is gentle, serious and love-struck, with some deliciously high, floating lines which had DiDonato at her pianissimo best.

    Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review 2011

  • If Kate had been unlucky enough to be of that faith, she would never have been allowed to set foot in Buckingham Palace -- an inconvenient truth, perhaps, and one that is not widely discussed in the ogling media, who are acting collectively like love-struck teenagers.

    Niall O'Dowd: This Royal Wedding Nonsense Cleverly Drowns Out Real Issues Niall O'Dowd 2011

  • If Kate had been unlucky enough to be of that faith, she would never have been allowed to set foot in Buckingham Palace -- an inconvenient truth, perhaps, and one that is not widely discussed in the ogling media, who are acting collectively like love-struck teenagers.

    Niall O'Dowd: This Royal Wedding Nonsense Cleverly Drowns Out Real Issues Niall O'Dowd 2011

  • He would show her as much consideration as if his intentions were quite the opposite, as if he were a love-struck suitor begging her favor.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • Seventeen percent of love-struck shoppers will be buying jewelry this Valentine's Day, shelling out $3.5 billion, up from an estimated $3 billion last year, according to the retail federation.

    Buy insurance for that bling Michelle Singletary 2011

  • I waited, forcing myself to stand like a Chicaza lord instead of the enraged and impetuous love-struck boy I wished to be at that moment.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • If Kate had been unlucky enough to be of that faith, she would never have been allowed to set foot in Buckingham Palace -- an inconvenient truth, perhaps, and one that is not widely discussed in the ogling media, who are acting collectively like love-struck teenagers.

    Niall O'Dowd: This Royal Wedding Nonsense Cleverly Drowns Out Real Issues Niall O'Dowd 2011

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