239. Dote - GRE Vocabulary - Dote / Dote On / Dote Over / Dotage

Dote : 맹목적으로 사랑하다, 망령들다, 노망, 썪음

Dote On : ~을 맹목적으로 사랑하다, ~을 애지중지하다

Dote Over : (지나치게 과도하게 감정적으로)~을 다루다, ~을 돌보다

Dotage : 망령, 노망, (지나친, 과도한, 맹목적인, 약간 미친듯한)애정

In one's dotage 나이가 들어서, 늙어서, 노망나서

 

You dote on someone, you love them completely

To love someone too much so much

They doted on their grandchild

To be uncritically fond or extremely fond 

The parents doted on only child

doting parents

 

Dote over, be excessive 

overly emotional, overly protective of

When I go to the five-star hotel, I want them doting over me

 

Dotage, when you get old, when your cognitive functions your brain start aging, you go a little bit gaga or senility 

In my dotage , I want to be weighted on hand and foot

In somebody's dotage, means when I am old

 

Dotage, also can be used when being incredibly fond of someone to an excessive degree

a little bit touched, a little bit insane, That is idea of dotage

 

 

Formality : 5 

 

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