besotted
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besotted
- /bɪˈsɒtɪd/ UK
- /bɪˈsɑtɪd/ US
Rhymes with -ɒtɪd
Where it comes from
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English besot
Old English -ed
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
Old English -od
Middle English -ed
English -ed
English besotted
From besot + -ed.
verb besotten
- simple past and past participle of besot
adjective more besotted · most besotted · besotten
- Infatuated. Paris, you ſpeake / Like one be-ſotted on your ſweet delights;
- Intellectually or morally blinded.
- Intoxicated, drunk. There are thousands who were begotten when both parents were besotted with drink, whose mothers saturated themselves with alcohol every day of their pregnancy, who may be said to have sucked in a taste for strong drink with their mothers' milk, and who were surrounded from childhood with opportuniti
