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besotted

[ bih-sot-id ]

adjective

  1. infatuated or obsessed:

    The besotted mom showed off pictures of her new baby.

    They had one date and he was utterly besotted.

  2. intoxicated; drunk:

    We found him besotted with wine.



besotted

/ ²úɪˈ²õÉ’³Ùɪ»å /

adjective

  1. stupefied with drink; intoxicated
  2. infatuated; doting
  3. foolish; muddled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²ú±ð·²õ´Ç³Ù·³Ù±ð»å·±ô²â adverb
  • ²ú±ð·²õ´Ç³Ù·³Ù±ð»å·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of besotted1

First recorded in 1580–90; besot + -ed 2
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Like so many Americans of a certain class and character, he’s besotted with the British royal family and insisted, in defiance of all available evidence, that he was good friends with the late Queen Elizabeth.

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"Kissing me under the indigo / I begged for the morning sun not to rise / Oh, what a beautiful starry night," she sings, totally besotted, on the ballad Indigo.

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Then, as now, they're an exceptionally cute couple – tender and funny and clearly besotted with one another.

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I could sense this even as a “Star Warsâ€-besotted 8-year-old.

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It was more common for girls in my year group at school to be besotted with them than not.

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