Definitions for DOTE

DOTE dote

Spelling: [doht]
IPA: /doʊt/

Dote is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in DOTE (deot).

Definitions for DOTE

noun

  1. decay of wood.

verb (used without object)

  1. to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually followed by on or upon):
  2. to show a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age.

Origin of DOTE

1175-1225; Middle English doten to behave foolishly, become feeble-minded; cognate with Middle Dutch doten.

Examples for DOTE

Well, what will women not swear to, to save those they dote upon!'

Besides, by partial fondness shown, Like you, we dote upon our own.

Soames often reflected on the mistake it was to dote on his daughter.

Every woman does not dote on velvet nor does every man dream of sable linings.

Nobody knows him like me; and if there was ever one made for him to dote on, it's your own self.

They just dote on that hussy—can't seem to get enough of her.

"I dote on 'em," comes back the Dowager, and "my daughter" owned up that she "adored" 'em.

"Yet it would be classical to dote upon a mermaid," Caius murmured.

They dote on children, and children the world over are much alike.

As to the women, they dote upon him: not even your red-coat is so successful.

Word Value for DOTE
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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