verb
- Have a great affection or liking for.
- usage: "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him"
- synonyms: love
- Get pleasure from.
- usage: "I love cooking"
- Be enamored or in love with.
- usage: "She loves her husband deeply"
- synonyms: love
- Have sexual intercourse with.
- usage: "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man"
- synonyms: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
adjective
- Feeling or showing love and affection.
- usage: "loving parents"; "loving glances"
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