Impassion

verb

verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    make passionate, instill passion in transitive

    "Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people."

Example

More examples

"Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people."

Etymology

From Italian impassionare. By surface analysis, im- + passion.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.