as in enraptured (by)
filled with an intense or excessive love for
was so besotted by the movies that as a kid he'd sometimes spend all day staring up at the silver screen
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obsessed
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As Van Helsing, Titus Welliver gives a commanding, dead-eyed and stern performance while Brady Hepner as older son Max curries our sympathies for having to endure the tyranny of an obsessed father.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
10 July 2025 -
Jessica cannot help but become obsessed with her, comparing herself to her and over-analyzing what went wrong.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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“Besotted (by).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/besotted%20%28by%29. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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