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Definition: Besot |
BesotVerb1. Make dull or stupid; to muddle with drunkenness or infatuation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Besot \Be*sot"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Besotted; present participle verb or noun Besotting.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: BesotSynonyms: stupefy (v), stupify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Besot |
| English words defined with "besot": Assot ♦ Besotting. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Besot" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Indonesian (scraped). |
| Language | Translations for "besot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خبل (amentia, befuddle, craze, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | напивам (fuddle, inebriate, intoxicate, liquor up, sew up, souse), зашеметявам (daze, rock, stagger, stun), алкохолизирам се. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ohlupovat (stultify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | enticher, abrutir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vernarren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποχαυνώνω (enervate, fuddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lerészegít. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | instupidire (stupefy), inebetire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo er meshtey (intoxicate), jannoo bolvanagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esotbay apatetar. (various references) tâmpi (addle, blunt, dull, flabbergast, flummox, hebetate, stupefy), prosti (bamboozle, chaff, chouse, dull, dupe, fool, make a fool of, stultify, stupefy). (various references) опьянять (befuddle). (various references) ošamutiti (daze, obfuscate, stun, stupefy). (various references) embriagar (intoxicate, make drunk), atontar (flummox). (various references) п'янити (befuddle, disguise, slew, sozzle), дурманити (befuddle, bemuse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "besot": besots, besotted, besotting. (additional references) | |
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"Besot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bahot, Basutu, beeso, beot, besat, besht, beso, Besor, besos, besport, Besso, besson, bessot, bezo, bicot, Biosoft, bisit, bissot, Boisot, Brescot, Bseisou, hesot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: best, bets, bots, obes, stob, toes. | |
-2 letters: bet, bos, bot, obe, oes, ose, set, sob, sot, toe. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, es, et, oe, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: besots, bestow, betons, boites, bosket, botels, buteos, objets, obtest, obtuse, sobeit, sorbet, strobe, tobies. | |
+2 letters: bedpost, beknots, benthos, beshout, bestows, bestrow, bettors, boasted, boaster, boatels, boaters, boldest, boletes, boletus, bolster, bolters, boneset, boniest, bonnets, boosted, booster, bootees, booties, borates, bortzes, boskets, bosquet, botches, bothers, bothies, bottles, boxiest, debtors, entombs, gobbets, goblets, hotbeds, lobster, mobster, noblest, obesity, objects, oblates, obtests, obtuser, obverts, orbiest, outbegs, rebatos, reboots, seaboot, sorbate, sorbent, sorbets, stobbed, strobes, subtone. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 73 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0073 006F 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671858186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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