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Definition of besot : To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

Synonyms:

get, pose, stick, beat, nonplus, fuddle, vex, bewilder, baffle, puzzle, Drugs, dumbfound, gravel, amaze, flummox, stupefy, stun, befuddle, perplex, mystify

Usage examples:

• Let Dionysus and his crew, Garlanded, drain their fevered brew, And in the orgiastic bowl Drug and besot the sacred soul; This simple country cup we drain Knows not the ghosts of sin and pain, No fates or furies follow him Who sips from its cream- mantled rim. - "October Vagabonds", Richard Le Gallienne.
• This is one of the relics of the monkish system, the aim of which, in all countries where it has existed, seems to have been to besot the minds of the people, that they might be more easily misled. - "The Bible in Spain", George Borrow.