infatuate

🇬🇧 UK/inˈfætjuєit/🇺🇸 US/in'fætjueit/
GRE

Definitions

v.

To inspire an intense, unreasoning passion or attraction in someone.

使迷恋,使痴迷

adj.

Foolishly or intensely attracted to someone; infatuated.

痴迷的,迷恋的

n.

A person who is infatuated.

迷恋某人的人

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
innot, opposite of
+
faturoot
+
ateto make, having
=infatuate

Common Collocations

  • 1.infatuated with迷恋上
  • 2.become infatuated变得痴迷
  • 3.[infatuated] by[被...迷住]

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    Fame and fortune infatuated him to the point of losing old friends.

  • 2.

    The celebrity became infatuated with herself and lost all sense of reality.

Browse all roots