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  • verb Present participle of besot.

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Examples

  • Millions of Canadians and Americans alike may be happy besotting themselves with hours of mindless drivel like The Bachelor and The Hills, but I just can't do it.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Millions of Canadians and Americans alike may be happy besotting themselves with hours of mindless drivel like The Bachelor and The Hills, but I just can't do it.

    The Mondays: The Fall of Television 2009

  • On Tuesday, September 8, 2204 BCE, Pharaoh Pepi II will deliver a speech to Egyptian schoolchildren urging them to learn their hieroglyphs and avoid besotting themselves on honey beer.

    Public Service Announcement | clusterflock 2009

  • In this mediation on power and those who enable the tyrants that keep besotting humanity, she makes no bones about the enablers that allow such horrors to strike.

    Chavez, Saddam and their enablers 2007

  • In this mediation on power and those who enable the tyrants that keep besotting humanity, she makes no bones about the enablers that allow such horrors to strike.

    12/31/2006 - 01/07/2007 2006

  • Thus I am limiting myself to a brief round up of the hilarious to sad news that keep besotting Venezuela.

    02/26/2006 - 03/05/2006 2006

  • Thus I am limiting myself to a brief round up of the hilarious to sad news that keep besotting Venezuela.

    Venezuela crazy round up of news 2006

  • Tal Cual makes a very serious accusation in its editorial today, an accusation that anyone who watches the current TV reports on the disasters that are besotting our country can make: the government, be it at the national level or at the local level, is trying to politically benefit from the relief effort.

    02/13/2005 - 02/20/2005 2005

  • Tal Cual makes a very serious accusation in its editorial today, an accusation that anyone who watches the current TV reports on the disasters that are besotting our country can make: the government, be it at the national level or at the local level, is trying to politically benefit from the relief effort.

    Crapulent distribution of the relief effort in Venezuela 2005

  • Above all things fearing to lie awake, he gave himself up to drinking deep and besotting himself at night in a way most unsuitable to his age; by all means provoking sleep, as a diversion to his thoughts.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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