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besot

verb
/bɪˈsɑt/US/bɪˈsɒt/UK

Etymology

From be- + sot. Compare to Middle English assoten, assotten (“to act foolishly; fall madly in love, become infatuated”).

  1. derived from sottus
  2. inherited from sot
  3. inherited from sot
  4. prefixed as besot — “be + sot”

Definitions

  1. 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, ...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at besot. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01besot02infatuation03infatuates04infatuate05infatuated06besotted

A definitional loop anchored at besot. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at besot

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA