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besot
CIDE DICTIONARY
besot, v. t.
To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. [1913 Webster]
"Fools besotted with their crimes." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
besot
KO, addle, anesthetize, bedaze, befuddle, bemuse, benumb, blunt, chloroform, coldcock, deaden, desensitize, dope, drug, dull, etherize, freeze, inebriate, intoxicate, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, narcotize, numb, obtund, palsy, paralyze, put to sleep, stun, stupefyROGET THESAURUS
besot
Drunkenness
VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.For further exploring for "besot" in Webster Dictionary Online