[bi-sot] 
| 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. |
| 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).] |
