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Infatuate   Listen
verb
Infatuate  v. t.  (past & past part. infatuated; pres. part. infatuating)  
1.
To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment. "The judgment of God will be very visible in infatuating a people... ripe and prepared for destruction."
2.
To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming. "The people are... infatuated with the notion."





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"Infatuate" Quotes from Famous Books



... yourselves as to walk in it for any allurement that is in it? Did you really believe that there is a precipice into utter darkness and everlasting death at the end of this alley, would the pleasure and sweetness of it be able to infatuate you and besot you so far as to lead you on into it, like an ox to the slaughter, and a fool to the correction of the stocks? It is strange, indeed, though you neither will believe that death is the end of these things, nor yet can you be persuaded that you do not believe it. There ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning


Words linked to "Infatuate" :   arouse, fire, elicit, enkindle, evoke, infatuation, provoke


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