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besot

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To muddle, stupefy, or act foolishly; as with alcoholic liquor or infatuation.

  • You expect me and my men to besot ourselves with your drugs, ... Robert Sheckley, "Legend of Conquistadors", Fantasy & Science Fiction: Vol. 104, Iss. 4

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The blossoms that besot the bee.

By Peter De Vries The New Yorker, May 17 , 1952P. 30 The blossoms that besot the bee View Article By John Cassidy By Phil Klay By Troy Patterson By Amy Davidson Sorkin.

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In 1864, Harper's was already deprecating speculators in the stock market ("a collection of wild beasts at feeding-time") and the lifestyle of the nouveaux riches ("besotting themselves with excess and dallying pleasure").

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