infatuated

be infatuated with (someone or something)

To be enamored of or in love with someone or something. April won't stop talking about her new boyfriend—she's totally infatuated with him. Tommy is infatuated with baseball right now, so just get him a bat for his birthday.
See also: infatuated

become infatuated with (someone or something)

To begin to be enamored of or in love with someone or something. April won't stop talking about her new boyfriend—she's become totally infatuated with him. Tommy's become infatuated with baseball, so just get him a bat for his birthday.
See also: become, infatuated

infatuated with (someone or something)

Enamored of or in love with someone or something. April won't stop talking about her new boyfriend—she's totally infatuated with him. Tommy is infatuated with baseball right now, so just get him a bat for his birthday.
See also: infatuated
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*infatuated with someone or something

to be in love with someone or something. (*Typically: be ~; become ~.) She is infatuated with John. John is infatuated with chocolate ice cream.
See also: infatuated
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be infatuated with (someone or something)
  • infatuated with
  • infatuated with (someone or something)
  • enamor
  • enamored of
  • enamored of (someone or something)
  • become infatuated with (someone or something)
  • in love
  • in love (with someone or something)
  • taken with, be
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Courting Desire
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Young Eden has become infatuated with her teacher, and she thinks it may be love.
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and Freud, the infatuated observer, and Irigaray and the politics of sexual differences.
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If it's not surprising to see leftists infatuated with Fidel, it's shocking that many in the mainstream media adore the man and the tropical gulag he created.
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He seems to be so infatuated with the "gay rights" ideology that he is unwilling even to consider all the compelling evidence from time immemorial that children thrive best in a united home under the care and guidance of their own natural mother and father.
Michael Ignatieff is ignorant of human rights