to love someone especially in a sexual or romantic way► love to have a strong feeling of liking someone, caring about them, and being sexually attracted to them: · He stroked her hair and murmured, "I love you."· He was the only man she had ever loved.love somebody very much: · We still love each other very much.
► be in love to love someone very much, so that you think about them all the time and want to be with them all the time: · I think I'm in love!be in love with: · How can you marry Adam when you're in love with someone else?be madly in love/very much in love (=very strongly in love): · We were both seventeen and madly in love.
► be crazy about informal to love someone very much, especially in a way that you cannot control: · Jo's crazy about you.
► fancy British spoken to be sexually attracted to someone, especially someone that you do not know very well: · All the girls fancy Bob.· I think Stevie fancies you.
► have a crush on if someone, especially a young person, has a crush on someone they have an uncontrollable feeling of love for them, especially when there is no chance of having a relationship with them: · It is quite normal for adolescents to have crushes on pop stars.· The only reason I went to church every Sunday was that I had a crush on the minister.
► be infatuated to have a strong and uncontrollable feeling of love for someone you do not know very well, which does not last for a long time: · Ever since she met Rod at a party she's been totally infatuated.be infatuated with: · Teenage girls sometimes become infatuated with their teachers.
► be besotted to be so much in love with someone that you do not behave sensibly or think clearly: · She was too besotted to see what he was really like.be besotted with: · He was obviously besotted with Julia.
having strong feelings of love for someone or a strong interest in something that makes you unable to think in a sensible wayinfatuated with
John had become infatuated with the French teacher.