besotted

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From besot +‎ -ed.

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besotted

  1. simple past and past participle of besot

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besotted (comparative more besotted, superlative most besotted)

  1. Infatuated.
    Synonyms: smitten, taken; see also Thesaurus:in love
  2. Intellectually or morally blinded.
  3. (archaic) Intoxicated, drunk.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
    • 1890, William Booth, chapter 6, in In Darkest England and the Way Out[1]:
      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 opportunities and incitements to drink.

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