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Besotten vs Besotted - What's the difference?

besotten | besotted | Alternative forms |

Besotted is a alternative form of besotten.



As adjectives the difference between besotten and besotted

is that besotten is infatuated while besotted is infatuated.

As verbs the difference between besotten and besotted

is that besotten is past participle of lang=en while besotted is past tense of besot.

besotten

English

Alternative forms

* besotted

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • infatuated
  • :* Playwright Marquis devises considerable fun with the vagaries of ignorant and besotten men in contact with an approachable countess and a haughty courtesan, ... — Time Magazine, "New Plays in Manhattan", 27 Jan; 1930
  • intellectually or morally blinded
  • :* ''... may have wakened whatever still remained of the gallant and high-spirited Polish nature in this morose and besotten old Stuart. — Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee), "The Countess of Albany", 1910
  • intoxicated
  • :* It was painful for him to sit there, besotten and broken, and listen to others playing. — Selma Lagerlöf, "The Girl From the Marsh Croft", Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1910
  • :* ''Now, one's mind is immediately brought to trips to Mexico by thousands of drunken, drug-besotten teenagers for "spring break" ..." — "The Mixed Blessing: Caritas in Veritate, Part III", 2009

    • Verb

    (head)
  • :* While you were besotten with Ringera, Mang'eli and Mau..... — archived forum, 2009

    • besotted

    English

    Alternative forms

    * besotten

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • infatuated
  • intellectually or morally blinded
  • intoxicated

    • Synonyms

    * See also * smitten with

    Verb

    (head)
  • (besot)

    • Derived terms

    * besottedly * besottedness

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