besot

VERB
  1. make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
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How To Use besot In A Sentence

  • Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
  • Harry disguises the latent homosexual feelings he has for his best friend Ron, by having a string of one night stands with besotted girls in the year below him.
  • A senior paediatrician who works with such families compared it to the intense love a besotted parent feels for an entirely helpless newborn. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am utterly and completely besotted by opera. Times, Sunday Times
  • If it doesn't, we wind up like Fitzgerald, lost in a lost city, besotted by booze and benumbed by grief. Judith Acosta: The Necessary Death of Romance
  • Smart turned out to be a very large and very friendly hairy headache whose owners were absolutely besotted with him. Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
  • The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience. Archive 2009-03-01
  • In many ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonetheless he continued to project blame at the bearded anathema beneath him, and he still glanced down periodically at the floor hoping to find the putative agents of the odor, evidence to bolster his bilious conclusions, being in full denial of himself. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
  • Who sat anarchically at a dallas real estate for sale, gladdened a authoritarianism, and for the inexhaustibly sphenoid clingfish vespidae to the sum of reinvigorated sphenoid we are spectacularly aesthetic besotted. Rational Review
  • When the intelligence becomes powerless to command and to say what and when and how the affections shall disport themselves, then man becomes a slave to his heart and is led like an ass by the nose hither and thither; and when nature thus runs unrestrained and wild, it makes for the mudholes of lust wherein to wallow and besot itself. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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