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1. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
   "he was besotted with her";
   - enamored [US], infatuated, in love, potty, smitten, soft on, taken with, enamoured [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. [archaic] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got besotted in the bar downstairs";
   - blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, out of it [Brit], trolleyed [Brit], mullered [Brit], tanked up, blitzed, stinko, fried [N. Amer], lit, steaming, bladdered [Brit], liquored up [N. Amer], legless [Brit], trashed, stewed, stonkered [Austral, NZ], paralytic [Brit], three sheets to the wind, pickled, bombed, wasted, juiced [N. Amer], hammered, bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

1. Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
   - stupefy

See also: drunk, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, loving

Type of: desensitise [Brit], desensitize

Encyclopedia: Besotted