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besotted - 3 dictionary results
be⋅sot
[bi-sot] 
–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. |
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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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Besotted
Be*sot"ted\, a. Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." --Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. --Milton.
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