Besot

  

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Besot

Definition: Besot

Besot

Verb

1. 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: Besot

Synonyms: stupefy (v), stupify (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Besot

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Besot

English words defined with "besot": AssotBesotting. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Besot" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Indonesian (scraped).

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Modern Translations: Besot

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

   

Portuguese

  

apatetar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tâmpi (addle, blunt, dull, flabbergast, flummox, hebetate, stupefy), prosti (bamboozle, chaff, chouse, dull, dupe, fool, make a fool of, stultify, stupefy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

опьянять (befuddle). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ošamutiti (daze, obfuscate, stun, stupefy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

embriagar (intoxicate, make drunk), atontar (flummox). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

п'янити (befuddle, disguise, slew, sozzle), дурманити (befuddle, bemuse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Besot

Derivations

Words beginning with "besot": besots, besotted, besotting. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Besot

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Besot


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 73 6F 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    ...    ---    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#115 &#111 &#116

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3671858186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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