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besotted
[ bih-sot-id ]
adjective
- infatuated or obsessed:
The besotted mom showed off pictures of her new baby.
They had one date and he was utterly besotted.
- intoxicated; drunk:
We found him besotted with wine.
besotted
/ ²úɪˈ²õÉ’³Ùɪ»å /
adjective
- stupefied with drink; intoxicated
- infatuated; doting
- foolish; muddled
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²ú±ð·²õ´Ç³Ù·³Ù±ð»å·±ô²â adverb
- ²ú±ð·²õ´Ç³Ù·³Ù±ð»å·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
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.
"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.
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 Warsâ€-besotted 8-year-old.
It was more common for girls in my year group at school to be besotted with them than not.
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