Dote

Quick meaning: Dote is a verb meaning (intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

Meaning

(intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
2. (intransitive, of trees, rare or obsolete) To rot, decay.
3. (countable, Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
4. (countable, obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
5. (uncountable, rare) Decay in a tree.
6. (obsolete) Dowry.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To endow, donate.

Example Sentences

How did his death-bed make him a doate!

Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.

Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.

He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.

Word Forms

• dotes
• doting
• doted

Synonyms for dote

Depending on context, synonyms include dobby, mimmerkin, love.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cherish, overindulge, doat, dandle, faddle, dawt.

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