Thesaurus: infatuate

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1. a. Infatuated.
2. v. t. To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment.
3. v. t. To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming.
4. v. arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
5. Infatuated. Bp. Hall. 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. Clarendon. 2. To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming. The people are . . . infatuated with the notion. Addison.
6. Infatuated. Bp. Hall.
7. v. arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way