besot

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

besot
    v 1: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or
         infatuation [syn: {besot}, {stupefy}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Besot \Be*sot"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Besotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Besotting}.]
   To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to
   infatuate.
   [1913 Webster]

         Fools besotted with their crimes.        --Hudibras.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "besot":
      KO, addle, anesthetize, bedaze, befuddle, bemuse, benumb, blunt,
      chloroform, coldcock, deaden, desensitize, dope, drug, dull,
      etherize, freeze, inebriate, intoxicate, kayo, knock out,
      knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out,
      narcotize, numb, obtund, palsy, paralyze, put to sleep, stun,
      stupefy

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