passion
/ˈpæʃən/ verb C2- To give a passionate character to.
He/she/it passions · Past passioned · Past participle passioned · -ing form passioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- passion
- He/she/it
- passions
- Past
- passioned
- Past participle
- passioned
- -ing form
- passioning
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It chanced that this Hugo came to love (if, indeed, so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name) the daughter of a yeoman who held lands near the Baskerville estate.
He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge.”
Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!” When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, “Let us get to the shore, and then I’ll tell you my history, and you’ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.”
A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.
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