Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Dote

Part of Speech: Verb

Source Sent. & Page # :
"Now, whenever we visit my relatives, all whom dote on my husband, i realize that he didn't marry me despite my tribe, he married me because of them. "
Funny in Farsi pg. 103

Context Clues: in the text, "all whom dote on my husband", dote must mean either they hate him or love him because "whom" refers to a group.

Definiton: to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually

Your Original Sentence : There are many parents who dote on their only child.

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