dote

[US]/dəʊt/
[UK]/doʊt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. to show excessive love or fondness; to be foolish or weak-minded
vt. to show excessive love or fondness for

Phrases & Collocations

dote on

dote over

Example Sentences

They dote on their daughter.

she doted on her two young children.

She dotes on her youngest son.

He was doted on by his sisters.

He dotes on his grandchildren and indulges their every whim.

Every one of the quintuplets are their darlings ,but the mother especially dotes on the youngest.

parents who dote on their only child.See Synonyms at like 1

Real-world Examples

Teachers dote on you. Other students ask for your help.

Source: Black Swan Selection

After he was born, she doted on his every move.

Source: The Big Bang Theory Season 10

Every one of the quintuplets are their darlings, but the mother especially dotes on the youngest.

Source: New Concept English: Vocabulary On-the-Go, Book Three.

With her mother's doting attention now being shared, Helen became intensely jealous.

Source: Women Who Changed the World

But they dote and swoon and fawn on a lady who's withdrawn.

Source: Universal Dialogue for Children's Animation

A doting father, he had a gift for friendship and extraordinary reserves of patience and discipline.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

And most important, will my nephew still remember his doting uncle when his uncle comes to visit soon?

Source: Beethoven lives upstairs from me.

But I dote on her. If they send her to some horrid orphanage, I'd never forgive myself.

Source: Downton Abbey (Audio Version) Season 5

Her mother Kate, just 23 years old, was a pampered Southern belle who doted on her first child.

Source: Women Who Changed the World

Doting on her at both sides are the figures the painting is named after — las meninas, the ladies-in-waiting.

Source: Encyclopædia Britannica

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