Doat vs. Dote — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Doat or Dote
How to spell Dote?
Doat
Incorrect Spelling
Dote
Correct Spelling
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Dote Definitions
To show excessive fondness or love
Doted on their only child.
To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
(Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
(obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
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Natural endowments.
To act foolishly.
He wol make him doten anon right.
To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tellOf arms imagined in your lonely cell.
He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; - with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote.
What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love.
An imbecile; a dotard.
Be foolish or senile due to old age
Shower with love; show excessive affection for;
Grandmother dotes on her the twins
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