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Meanings of besot in English

Spanish
embrutecerse

Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation.

embrutecerse
Usage of besot in English
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Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!
Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
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Does ambition besot and blind men?
The Last of the Barons — Volume 05
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The New Yorker, May 17, 1952 P. 30 The blossoms that besot the bee View Article
The new yorker
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However, it seems like these two are beyond besotted with each other.
The South African
5
Negroes and mulattoes were drinking there, intoxicating and besotting themselves, and fraternising.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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Eventually Marilyn departs, leaving a bewitched and besotted Colin in her wake.
Reuters
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The old man was already besotted; now, he was bordering on obsession.
Hostile intent
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Are you a fool, or have you grown besotted in your age?
The Justice of the King
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He was besotted with her, but she did not care for him.'
Waiting for the Barbarians
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This is an ANC party besotted by internal divide and factions.
The South African
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You can imagine how this went down with a cricket-besotted 12-year-old.
The Guardian
12
I'm a drunken, chemical-besotted playboy who does nothing but cavort, sleep, and feed.
Death masks
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But I think he was always going to be besotted with this woman.
Nano
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That's how I knew she was besotted with me, Eirik explained.
The viking takes a knight
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It sounded as if the Queen was deeply in thrall to him-orbesotted.
The lady elizabeth
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We may have been stupid, besotted, infatuated even, in our blindness and incredulity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 / A Maga...
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Translations for besot
Besot through the time