Pronunciations (3)
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/dəʊt/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/doʊt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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dəʊt
Pronunciation notes
- GB
Verb
To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
Usage- Intransitive
- stative
- usually
- with-on
- Examples
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Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
More examples (1)
'[…] So altered — so faded — worn down by acute suffering of every kind! hardly could I believe the melancholy and sickly figure before me, to be the remains of the lovely, blooming, healthful girl, on whom I had once doated […]'
Jules doted on Chris, spending hours while Chris was at school assembling vast cities out of microscopic Lego pieces to surprise him when he returned.
To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
Usage- Archaic
- Intransitive
- Examples
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He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
To rot, decay.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
- Rare
- of trees
Noun
A darling, a cutie.
Usage- Ireland
- Countable
- Examples
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But to be sure baby Boardman was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.
An imbecile; a dotard.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Examples
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How did his death-bed make him a doate!
Decay in a tree.
Usage- Rare
- Uncountable
Noun
Dowry.
Usage- Obsolete
Verb
To endow, donate.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
Verb
be foolish or senile due to old age
shower with love; show excessive affection for
- Broader terms
- Examples
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Grandmother dotes on the twins