Word Finder - loved

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(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

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I love my spouse.   I love you!

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To need, thrive on.

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Mold loves moist, dark places.

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To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

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I love walking barefoot on wet grass;  I'd love to join the team;  I love what you've done with your hair

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(usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

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To derive delight from a fact or situation.

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I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.

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To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

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I wish I could love her all night long.

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To praise; commend.

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To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

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Being the object of love.

How did you know you loved him?

I loved you in this life and the last.

He had loved a singer, but he had married the farmer's daughter.

He lost his lease, so he was living with loved ones.

She and Dad would have loved Alex.

My brother loved her with all his soul.

They loved each other.

Next to his family he loved his dogs and gun.

After all, they had known and loved each other for a long time.

He loved her and she loved him.

I still believed in people, loved them, and sacrificed myself.

I know Martha had her days when I could have killed her but I loved her too.

For her sake, he made an effort to behave, but he truly loved the openings she gave him.

I know my parents loved me, but there are other ways to teach children without hurting them, Martha.

I can't forget that she said she loved Alex and hoped we would split up.

She loved him too much to interfere in his life.

Strange shapes of hills and rocks, rare plants and animals, unusual faces and figures of men, questionable smiles and expressions, whether beautiful or grotesque, far-fetched objects and curiosities, were things he loved to pore upon and keep in memory.

She needs to be loved... touched.

In her confused state of mind, she had convinced herself that he loved her.

Then Ronnie got up and said how he and mom loved each other and how she still loved her daughter Annie and it sounded like my sister was her only child.

Betsy loved reveled in it and it fulfilled my needs; the wine did the trick and, I was hungry and the food tasted good.

She'd hoped not to lose the man she loved as well.

I loved you, too, Gabriel.

He's always loved the side of you that laughs.

Yesterday I had a foster daughter I loved like my own—today, what do I have?

No. I loved that boy.

He loved touching her and loved even more watching her try to figure out what to do about it.

He loved that look, where her lips were plump from kissing and her cheeks flushed.

Even this sensation she loved.

What if it was her fault the human Gabriel loved died?

He'd be condemning her to Hell the same way she did the human he loved.

The mating laws from the time-before-time were absolute, but what if Darkyn and Gabriel made their own private deal to return the human Gabriel loved and abandon past-Death to the hands of the Dark One?

Or maybe, like he really had loved her through the millennia they were together.

Until you took my soul a few months ago, I was there because I loved you and for no other reason.

Gabriel was reminded of the many times he'd expressed something human to the goddess he'd loved for thousands of years.

The news of their deal had infuriated Gabriel once more and driven him off, leading Deidre to believe that he had loved the human more than her.

He loved her since the beginning.

Josh's sister had made a few comments to indicate that she thought Josh might have ended his life purposely because he still loved Carmen.

The Appaloosa stallion loved to run, and Princess couldn't be left behind.

Alex had loved once before, long time ago, and that girl had betrayed him.

In November 1621, James I., knowing that London was "a dish" which Donne "loved well," "carved" for him the deanery of St Paul's.

The Frisian peasants and fisher folk loved their independence, and were equally refractory to the rule of any distant overlord, whether count or bishop. Dirk VI.

To sum up the incidents of this eventful period of his life, it was during it that he lost his mother, always loved and dutifully honoured, by death; his sister had been estranged from him some years before by an imprudent marriage, which, though making her a liberal allowance, he never forgave.

The regret for his loss was universal; for no modern man was ever better loved or better deserved to be loved.

A knightly celibate, his stainless life, his ardour, caused him to be termed a Yankee Galahad; a pure and simple heart was laid bare to those who loved him in " My Psalm," " My Triumph " and " An Autograph."

While he loved the thought of her commitment to him, her action made him want to explode.

Demons loved a challenge and a fight.

He did it because you were bad—and he loved you.

Yesterday I had a foster daughter I loved like my own—today, what do I have?

I don't know how it came up—maybe he asked where I was born—but when I told him, he said how he knew Ouray and loved it out here.