enamor

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Verb 1.5 References 1.6 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• enamour

[edit] Etymology

Old French enamourer, enamorer; prefix en- (Latin in) + Old French & French amour (“‘love’”), Latin amor. See amour, and confer inamorato.

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmə(r)

[edit] Verb

to enamor (third-person singular simple present enamors, present participle enamoring, simple past and past participle enamored)

1. To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; — with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

   Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. — Washington Irving.

[edit] References

• enamor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aemnor
• anomer
• maenor
• moaner
• Monera