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beset English

Meaning beset meaning

What does beset mean?

beset

— verb (= harass, harry) annoy continually or chronically He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked This man harasses his female co-workers — verb assail or attack on all sides The zebra was beset by leopards — verb (= encrust) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)

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beset English » English

besiege surround beleaguer hem in hassle harass encircle trouble throng surrounded pressure plague molest harry encompass circumvent bother afflict worry vex torment threaten set upon pursue provoke mob incrust gird environ encrust enclosed enclose encircled close in chivy chivvy chevy chevvy chase attack assail ail weigh wall in violently attacked vest try out try tribulate test

Conjugation beset conjugation

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beset · verb

Examples beset examples

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Simple sentences

The problem was beset with difficulties.

Movie subtitles

Beset by economic crises and by environmental fears, the West today is also waking up to a growing Eastern challenge to its political and military supremacy.
We are beset by a great misfortune.
And I start it with this dancer, the beset one in every household, lying dormant after sweeping out the nazis and all other evils!
In your grand design, there may be no room for man's triumph over this particular evil that has beset us.
Sirens and tempests beset me.
We'll beset our well-known pass in pairs.
It appears that he is beset on every side by snarling enemies.
Oh, I am beset by devils!
A tragedy of fortunes, and I am too much beset by them.
He knew what temptations beset him away from home.
Grumio, draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves, Rescue thy mistress if thou be'est a man.
You see, Solos has been beset in recent months with problems.
Ah, the heart is now beset by fear?!
The struggle of a hero beset by perils. riding to magnificent victory and ultimate triumph. as described in the development section of the first movement.
And the sun beset by dead of night.
Larry's gripped by the most powerful emotion that can beset the breast of man, self-sacrifice.
At heart, we weren't mean, but beset with a rage. children feel concerning Love, unknown yet haunting What were we after?
And we'll beset free?
What walls beset the canyon, we know not.
In a world beset by violence, hunger and strife. there are occasions when mankind surpasses. the petty struggles of daily existence.
I will continue here as long as I can. as long as you are beset by the haunting illness. which I saw consume your beautiful mind.
That action makes no sense, unless you believe as I do, that the blight of inexplicable and irrational events that have lately beset this world are a cry of pain, from a planet that knows it is doomed.
Where there was a fortress on a cliff, a wall beset with cannons, sharp waves of bayonets, vaults of sabers - there stood Papkin, lion undaunted, noble swordsman!
Let our games and laughter mingle. Would you criticise the passions I bring to life? When you are beset by them, for better or for worse, I alone govern them, as master.
I am beset by the ironies of my life.
You do indeed seem beset by the hosts of Midian.
I admit I was beset by thoughts of revenge.
The place is surrounded by guards, we're beset by a wandering lunatic and we have a pair of corpses on our hands.
My soul is imprisoned, bound to this ugly lump of blighted rock, beset by zombie Mentiads and interfering Doctors.
A princess locked in a tower and beset by a dragon. is rescued by a brave knight, and then they share true love's fiirst kiss.
I think you're a man with so many different responsibilities you sometimes get feeling beset.
You washed your hands of me, Mr Tolliver. when I was beset amid that rabble. no less contemptibly than Pontius Pilate.
Your Majesty is beset by enemies.
I'm beset by phony christians!
Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them.

News and current affairs

Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain.
A China beset by serious economic problems is likely to experience considerable social and political instability.
Today, 1.6 billion people do not have electricity; when the sun sets, their lives are literally beset by darkness.
India has survived all the challenges that have beset it for 60 years because it has maintained a consensus on how to manage without consensus.
The entire Middle East is beset not only by wars but also by deepening development failures: intensifying fresh water stress, desertification, high youth unemployment, poor educational systems, and other serious blockages.
BERKELEY - The United States is beset by four deficits: a fiscal deficit, a jobs deficit, a deficit in public investment, and an opportunity deficit.
Unlike Europe, beset by a sovereign-debt crisis, and the United States, whose leaders are wrangling over how to stem the deficit, Russia may look like an oasis of stability and continuity.
Greed, power, position, and egos have beset the electronic media as they have everything else in the postcommunist era.
Not surprisingly, the League is calling for new elections in the spring, whereas Berlusconi would prefer to widen the government's majority by bringing back Casini - a path beset with hurdles and hazards.
A rising power, beset with internal inequality, turns to nationalism and challenges the dominant power, provoking a war that turns back the progress of economic globalization.
These include legal impediments to labor mobility, reform of a complex tax system beset by excessive rates and porous loopholes, and substandard road infrastructure.
The economic historian Harold James has shown in a recent book that in the 40 years of negotiations leading to the adoption of the common currency, all of the problems that now beset the eurozone were discussed repeatedly.
By contrast, southern Africa is beset with problems.
These constitutional rules prevent the kind of deficit and debt problems that have beset the eurozone, where capital markets ignored individual countries' lack of monetary independence.
They have stuck for far too long to an intermediate path that is unstable and beset by tensions.
With both Western and Eastern Europe beset by political conflict and economic stagnation, the five centuries of European global dominance are drawing to an end.
In deciding that her People's Party would participate in the January parliamentary election, Bhutto threw a lifeline to Musharraf, who has been beset by multiple insurgencies, a nationwide terrorist threat, and rock-bottom legitimacy.
But he has been unable to integrate these individual measures into a more concrete vision that could address the neo-colonial links that still beset Franco-African relations.
But, as industrial countries, beset by fiscal, sovereign-debt, and banking problems, slowed once again, the fix for emerging markets turned out to be only temporary.
After all, the problems that beset Mr. Schroeder, or Mr. Berlusconi, and Messieurs Chirac and Jospin, aren't the stuff that shapes the world.
Thaksin's rapid reversal of political fortune attests to the limits of the ballot box, as well as to democratic shortcomings that now beset a host of developing countries, including regional neighbors such as the Philippines.
The story it presents is of a world beset by real injustices, for which the only solution is violent action that will supposedly lead to the victory of a monolithic Muslim world.

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