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be⋅sot

  [bi-sot]
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–verb (used with object), -sot⋅ted, -sot⋅ting.
1. to intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
2. to make stupid or foolish: a mind besotted with fear and superstition.
3. to infatuate; obsess: He is besotted by her youth and beauty.
Origin:
1575–85; be + sot

Related forms:
be⋅sot⋅ted⋅ly, adverb
be⋅sot⋅ted⋅ness, noun
be⋅sot⋅ting⋅ly, adverb
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be·sot   (bĭ-sŏt')   
tr.v.   be·sot·ted, be·sot·ting, be·sots
To muddle or stupefy, as with alcoholic liquor or infatuation.

[be- + sot, to stupefy (from sot, fool; see sot) or from assot, to befool (from Old French assoter, from sot, foolish).]
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Besot

Be*sot"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Besotting.] To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

Fools besotted with their crimes. --Hudibras.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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