besot
Americanverb (used with object)
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to intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
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to make stupid or foolish.
The stories had besotted her mind with fear and superstition.
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to infatuate; obsess.
Youth and beauty have a tendency to besot middle-aged men; charm and tenderness does it for women of all ages.
Other Word Forms
- besottingly adverb
Etymology
Origin of besot
Example Sentences
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It will steal in upon you, grow upon you, beset and besot you, till you like no other place in the world so well.”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
Ah cruel fates, why do you then besot Poor Corin's soul with love, when love is fled?
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote
Nightmares Ride in their wake, the spirits to besot.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
And don't you forget You will ne'er be forgot, You never should fret As at times you have frot, I would chase all the cares that beset, if they ever besot.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
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