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verb (used with object), be·set, be·set·ting.
1.
to attack on all sides; assail; harass: to be beset by enemies; beset by difficulties.
2.
to surround; hem in: a village beset on all sides by dense forest.
3.
to set or place upon; bestud: a gold bracelet beset with jewels.
4.
Nautical. to surround (a vessel) by ice, so that control of the helm is lost.
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Example Sentences
- It has also served as a window on the homelessness, poverty and racial antagonism that beset cities across the country.
- After all, once you start down this road, there's no end to the demons that can beset you.
- But the government, beset by crises such as last year's tsunami, has not got around to many of its promised reforms.
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beset
O.E. besettan "to put, place; own, keep; cover, surround with, besiege," from P.Gmc. *bisatjan (cf. O.S. bisettjan, Ger. besetzen, Goth. bisatjan); see be- + set (v.). The figurative sense also was in O.E.
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