adore
/əˈdoɹ/ verb B2- To worship.
- To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection. · It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.
- To be very fond of.
He/she/it adores · Past adored · Past participle adored · -ing form adoring
Verb forms
- Base form
- adore
- He/she/it
- adores
- Past
- adored
- Past participle
- adored
- -ing form
- adoring
From the library
Morrel, and I adore Mercédès.
“Oh, you do not know what is seventeen months in prison!—seventeen ages rather, especially to a man who, like me, had arrived at the summit of his ambition—to a man, who, like me, was on the point of marrying a woman he adored, who saw an honorable career opened before him, and who loses all in an instant—who sees his prospects destroyed, and is ignorant of the fate of his affianced wife, and whether his aged father be still living!
“‘Which is to recover a lost and adored son.’”
“A lost and adored son!”
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