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besot
[ bih-sot ]
verb (used with object)
- to intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
- to make stupid or foolish:
The stories had besotted her mind with fear and superstition.
- 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 51Թ Forms
- ·dztԲ· adverb
Example Sentences
Then, as now, they're an exceptionally cute couple – tender and funny and clearly besotted with one another.
I could sense this even as a “Star Wars”-besotted 8-year-old.
It was more common for girls in my year group at school to be besotted with them than not.
Even though staff have long been besotted with the chick, seeing the love he’s attracted from the public has been an absurd experience, they say.
Like all besotted lovers, they seem to exist in a private realm, one that the French-Senegalese filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy illuminates with cozy framing, daubs of strong colors and a bold, graphic sensibility.
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