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Common collocations with love in British Collocation

love verb transitive

UK /lʌv/

deeply

dearly
deeply
greatly
passionately
really
truly
unconditionally

He loves his family deeply.

in a way that is easy to see

clearly
obviously

She clearly loved Sidney as more than a conventional friend.

secretly

secretly

Mary secretly loves Edward but he thinks of her as a friend.

in a way that is sincere

genuinely

Jim does genuinely love Karen, there’s no doubt about it.

I was in love with my best friend’s brother.

We were young and we were in love.

She had fallen in love with James the first time she met him.