to lose one's heart to
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4.4
- idiom
:
enamorarse de
- He completely lost his heart to her the moment they met.
Examples
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And I don't mind telling you I've completely lost my heart to you.
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As teachers, we lose our hearts to the so-called brilliant students and grudgingly serve the masses.
Academic text (1995) -
There was a time I would have lost my heart to a face like yours.
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I lost my heart to a girl.
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It's the smile he lost his heart to.
Fiction book (1995) -
Our Freeman lost his heart to this woman.
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He seems to have lost his heart to you. "He knows I like him," she said.
Fiction book (1991) -
♪ I lost my heart to you ♪
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However, I thought that even in this simple old photograph, with its black and white fading into sepia and its edges fraying, Momma looked so pretty that it was easy to see why Daddy had lost his heart to her so quickly, even though she was only fifteen at the time.
Fiction book (1990) -
After weeks of dating, she finally lost her heart to him.
Synonyms
950
2.5
To begin to feel strong romantic feelings for someone
475
1.6
To begin to feel strong romantic feelings for someone or something
84
3.7
To start to like someone as more than a friend
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4.7
To fall in love suddenly, often without planning
Make a person fall deeply and quickly in love with you
Antonyms
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'heart' as the seat of emotions plus the directional 'to' makes it partly inferable that the phrase concerns giving emotional attachment to someone; a learner who knows the words may guess it relates to feelings. However, 'lose' here is metaphorical (not literal loss) and can be confused with other senses (e.g., 'lose heart' = become discouraged), so the specific sense 'fall in love' is not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Lose one's heart to comes from the old idea that the heart is where our feelings live. Imagine giving your heart away to a person or a place, so it now means 'to fall in love with'.