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besotting

besotting is the present participle and gerund of besot.

Meaning of besot

Verb

besot (third-person singular simple present besots, present participle besotting, simple past besotted, past participle besotted or besotten)

  1. (transitive) To muddle, stupefy, or cause to act foolishly, as with alcoholic liquor or infatuation.
    • You expect me and my men to besot ourselves with your drugs, ...April 2003, Robert Sheckley, "Legend of Conquistadors", Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 104, Issue 4; page 50

Words formed from besotting

Questions about besotting

What is besotting the present participle and gerund of?
Besotting is the present participle and gerund of besot.

Words near besotting in the dictionary

  1. besots
  2. besotted
  3. besottedly
  4. besottedness
  5. besotten
  6. besotting
  7. besottingly
  8. besought
  9. besoughtest
  10. besoul
  11. besouled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: besotting (page history and authors); besot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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