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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
Example:
Narcissus was a beautiful Greek youth who became enamored of his own reflection
Synonyms:
enamored; in love; infatuated; potty; smitten; soft on; taken with
Classified under:
Similar:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
Context examples:
If I hesitated, she was taken with that wonderful disorder which was always lying in ambush in her system, ready, at the shortest notice, to prey upon her vitals.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 3, 2016 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of ultraviolet light centered at 338 nanometers.
(Regarding Rhea, NASA)
The images in this mosaic were taken with the ISS narrow-angle camera, using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 938 nanometers.
(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)
The Spitzer picture is composed of four images taken with the telescope's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) during Spitzer's prime mission, in different wavelengths of infrared light: 3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 (shown as blue, green, orange and red).
('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)
I imagined myself only to be regretting my loss, and thinking how to repair it; but when my reflections were concluded, and I looked up and found that the afternoon was gone, and evening far advanced, another discovery dawned on me, namely, that in the interval I had undergone a transforming process; that my mind had put off all it had borrowed of Miss Temple—or rather that she had taken with her the serene atmosphere I had been breathing in her vicinity—and that now I was left in my natural element, and beginning to feel the stirring of old emotions.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At first she caressed the cub and licked his wounded shoulder; but the blood she had lost had taken with it her strength, and for all of a day and a night she lay by her dead foe's side, without movement, scarcely breathing.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In the mean time the emperor held frequent councils, to debate what course should be taken with me; and I was afterwards assured by a particular friend, a person of great quality, who was as much in the secret as any, that the court was under many difficulties concerning me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
At all hours of the day and night, I would be taken with the premonitory shudder; above all, if I slept, or even dozed for a moment in my chair, it was always as Hyde that I awakened.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at work upon him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He began—stopping, however, almost directly to say, Had I been offered the sight of one of this gentleman's letters to his mother-in-law a few months ago, Emma, it would not have been taken with such indifference.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
