Usually means: Show excessive love or fondness.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dote: Merriam-Webster
  2. dote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dote: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dote: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dote, dote: Wordnik
  7. dote: Wiktionary
  8. dote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dote: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dote: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Dote, dote: Dictionary.com
  12. dote: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. dote: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. DOTE: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dote: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dote: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dote: Rhymezone
  18. Dote: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dote: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dote: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dote: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. dote: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Dote: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. dote: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOTE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dote: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. dote: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dote)

verb:  (intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
verb:  (intransitive, of trees, rare or obsolete) To rot, decay.
noun:  (countable, Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
noun:  (uncountable, rare) Decay in a tree.
noun:  (obsolete) Dowry.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To endow, donate.

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