besot , also: besott

But it's no wonder boys like that must besot themselves early in order to survive.

Mr. Kaplan's challenge is to besot his young publisher with a love of the ink-and-newsprint business before that happens.

Your money would neither suffice to buy the enemy's death, your alcohol to besot him, nor your music to deafen him.

She understood in a blinding moment of clarity that he hoped to so shock her or besot her that she would forget what, or whom, she had seen here tonight.

He has four streetwalkers besot themselves with wine and then fight with each other while he looks on; and when they are thoroughly drunk, they one after another vomit into his mouth.