Endear
[ɪn'dɪə;en-] or [ɪn'dɪr]
Definition
(verb.) make attractive or lovable; 'This behavior endeared her to me'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To make dear or beloved.
(v. t.) To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Attach, secure the affection of, bind by ties of affection, gain the love of.
Typist: Rosa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Attach, conciliate, gain
ANT:Estrange, alienate, embitter
Typist: Serena
Definition
v.t. to make dear or more dear.—adjs. Endeared′ beloved; Endear′ing.—adv. Endear′ingly.—n. Endear′ment act of endearing: state of being endeared: that which excites or increases affection: a caress.
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Examples
- His little failings would only have endeared him to you the more. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I think I should feel as if the name had become endeared to me, and I had no right to use it so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On the contrary, her plans and proceedings were more and more justified and endeared to her by the general appearances of the next few days. Jane Austen. Emma.
- How fair and precious to that mother was that sleeping child's face, endeared by the memory of a thousand dangers! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- His business ability was on a high level, while his personal character endeared him to us all. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was quite helpless, and his ways with ladies were very endearing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He seems to be even fonder of his mice than of his other pets, smiles at them, and kisses them, and calls them by all sorts of endearing names. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Even poor little Clarence, the born idiot of the family, is the most agreeable and most endearing blockhead! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Who could be much with so pliable and beautiful a creature, and not yield to her endearing influence? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A good endearing creature she was. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- To be familiar and endearing with them all--and so make me mad with envying them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Not to be behindhand in the sociality of the evening, he complies and gives them Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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