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dotest

dotest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of dote.

Meaning of dote

Verb (1)

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

  1. (intransitive, stative, usually, with-on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
    • Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
    Synonyms:
    adore, love
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
    • He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.1692–1717, Robert South, “Ill-disposed Affections […] ”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To rot, decay.

Verb (2)

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow, donate.

See all 8 meanings of dote

Origin of dotest

From dote + -est.

Questions about dotest

What is dotest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dotest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of dote.

Words near dotest in the dictionary

  1. doteries
  2. doters
  3. dotery
  4. dotes
  5. dotes over
  6. dotest
  7. doteth
  8. dotfile
  9. dotfiles
  10. doth
  11. Dothan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dotest (page history and authors); dote (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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