verb
- to fill with passion or strong emotion; to inspire with intense feeling
Usage: formal
Examples
- The speaker’s words impassioned the crowd to action.
- Her performance was impassioned and moving.
- The coach’s speech impassioned the team before the championship game.
- The activist’s plea impassioned many listeners to join the cause.
- His impassioned defense of civil rights inspired a generation.
- The poet’s verses impassioned readers with their beauty and truth.