(v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) An imbecile; a dotard.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stigma of having no brothers or sisters meant that any acting up was immediately dismissed with a caustic, “Well, he is an only child.” The subtext was that my parents had doted on me excessively, inflating my sense of importance.
(2) Batty told the ABC in July that when he died Anderson doted on Luke and seemed to be a caring father.
(3) Oh, my God.” Rad is doing the rounds as a doting interviewee following his re-promotion to chief executive in August this year.
(4) Five nurses were trained to use the DOTES to rate the absence or presence and intensity of specific medication side effects.
(5) The Dosage Record Treatment Emergent Symptom Scale (DOTES) is a rating scale for measuring the presence and intensity of psychotropic medication side effects.
(6) Richard Vardon, representing Nevin at the appeal hearing, said the doting mother had been put in a terrible position by her housemate – and had been devastated to find herself separated from her children and in jail.
(7) Anyone who dotes on football warms to Arsenal, but you can celebrate the stylishness without assuming they are an irresistible force.
(8) The purposes of this pilot study are to (1) develop a protocol for training raters to use the DOTES, (2) assess inter-rater agreement, 3) examine the reasons for disagreement among raters to clarify training procedures and symptom definitions, and (4) further refine this instrument for use in clinical and research settings.
(9) In asserting that Chinese kids perform conspicuously well in school (that’s enough to make people nervous) Phillips is offering a think positive alternative to negative generalisations about black-on-black street violence or the propensity of a few teenagers from Pakistani homes to head for jihad instead of medical school as their doting parents planned.
(10) They aren't alone in this – it's one of the most basic human instincts, and for too long we have been telling men and boys that the only way they can be useful is by bringing home money to a doting wife and kids, or possibly by dying in a war.
(11) In Britain, where a handful of country's most iconic figures are held in high regard and the music press dotes on artists who straddle the country and indie-rock boundaries, the polish and sheen of the Nashville mainstream has never really translated.
(12) I've read Ronald Reagan's diaries and observed how much he doted on Nancy; and Laura Bush's memoirs, in which there's no doubt that her marriage to Dubya is a strong and happy one; as, surely, is Barack and Michelle's.
(13) This is hardly surprising: because it is harder for same-sex couples to have children, there is a positive selection for what are more likely to be doting parents.
(14) To determine the safety of the medication, a modified Dotes Secondary Effects Scale was used.
(15) Denmark's new leader is married to Stephen Kinnock; Neil and Glenys are doting grandparents to the couple's children, Johanna, 14, and Camilla, 11.
(16) While Hitler doted on his cultural fantasies, paintings were vanishing into fruit cellars and attics.
(17) Mrs Bennet has the ballast – the younger daughters and her own sheer energy for filling the air with noise – while Mr Bennet has the precision missiles: his sarcasm and the challenging aspect of Elizabeth, his dote.
(18) Being a parent, I figured a spot of controlled crying might help, and immediately vowed to write a column containing a section in which I dote and coo over babies in a manner calculated to make these people scream with revulsion, only to discover they're unable to do so on the page itself.
(19) Haryssa's godmother had doted on her, according to a neighbour, Bellefleur Jean Heber.
(20) Documentation was effected via the following examination instruments described and recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), USA; CGI, BPRS, Dotes, APDI and PTR.
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Definition:
(n.) A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree.