"besotten" meaning in English

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      "form": "more besotten",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most besotten",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), The Countess of Albany",
          "text": "... may have wakened whatever still remained of the gallant and high-spirited Polish nature in this morose and besotten old Stuart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, Selma Lagerlöf, The Girl From the Marsh Croft, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company",
          "text": "It was painful for him to sit there, besotten and broken, and listen to others playing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930 January 27, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time Magazine",
          "text": "Playwright Marquis devises considerable fun with the vagaries of ignorant and besotten men in contact with an approachable countess and a haughty courtesan",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, The Mixed Blessing: Caritas in Veritate, Part III",
          "text": "Now, one's mind is immediately brought to trips to Mexico by thousands of drunken, drug-besotten teenagers for \"spring break\" ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of besotted"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "past participle of besot"
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  "word": "besotten"
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      "form": "more besotten",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most besotten",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1910, Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), The Countess of Albany",
          "text": "... may have wakened whatever still remained of the gallant and high-spirited Polish nature in this morose and besotten old Stuart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, Selma Lagerlöf, The Girl From the Marsh Croft, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company",
          "text": "It was painful for him to sit there, besotten and broken, and listen to others playing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930 January 27, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time Magazine",
          "text": "Playwright Marquis devises considerable fun with the vagaries of ignorant and besotten men in contact with an approachable countess and a haughty courtesan",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, The Mixed Blessing: Caritas in Veritate, Part III",
          "text": "Now, one's mind is immediately brought to trips to Mexico by thousands of drunken, drug-besotten teenagers for \"spring break\" ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of besotted"
      ],
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          "besotted#English"
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  "word": "besotten"
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