besot

And don't you forget You will ne'er be forgot, You never should fret As at times you have frot, I would chase all the cares that beset, if they ever besot.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!

From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

It will steal in upon you, grow upon you, beset and besot you, till you like no other place in the world so well.”

From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Nightmares Ride in their wake, the spirits to besot.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Ah cruel fates, why do you then besot Poor Corin's soul with love, when love is fled?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow

“I was in awe of his intellect, dazzled by his wit, amazed by his fearlessness and spirit of adventure, besotted by his loving heart, and smitten by his beautiful blue eyes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Wannabeher, meanwhile, is a sticky, sleazy track about being so completely besotted with someone that you start to blur the boundaries between where your personality ends and theirs begins.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

This old-school value manager is finding plenty of unloved bargains in a market besotted with AI.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

She transforms herself from “a wild, hatless little savage” into a lady, which estranges her from her childhood companion and besotted admirer, Heathcliff, a foundling who lives with her family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Under the moon’s besotted gaze, she ran deep into the jungle, her body strong, her every sense heightened.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

That delivers 0-60 mph acceleration pace in the 7s—adequate, though hardly besotting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015

Our scientific assumptions admit just as much of an interpretation and utilisation in favour of a besotting philistinism—yea, in favour of bestiality—as also in favour of "blessedness" and soul-inspiration.

From We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by J. M. (John McFarland) Kennedy

Losses and contumely, that had been incurred by the besotting prejudices of European commanders were beginning to be forgotten in the pride of success.

From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper

It is a besotting kind of taste, likely to turn into a disease.

From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

To accomplish these selfish projects, they applied every engine toward besotting the multitude with superstition and enthusiasm.

From Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield