transitive. To inspire or inflame with love. Chiefly passive to be enamoured: to be in love. Const. of, †on, †upon, with. Also figurative.

transitive. To make a fool of, infatuate, befool.

figurative. To inflame with desire, love, passion, etc.

Transferred uses. figurative. Of Cupid, love, etc.

transitive (chiefly in passive). To set on fire, enkindle, inflame (with love, etc.); also literally (with flame).

transitive. To fill with desire; = entalent, v.

transitive. To inspire with love.

transitive. To inspire with love, to enamour.

transitive. To inspire passion or love, esp. romantic love, in (a person or the heart); to enamour. Chiefly in passive with with or by (the…

transitive. To excite intense feelings of love or attraction in (a person); to infatuate, to enamour. Also in weakened sense: to charm, fascinate…

To catch the admiration, fancy, or affection of (one of the opposite sex); in pass., to be favourably impressed by (an idea, suggestion, etc.). In…