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BESET

be·set

verb

MEANING:

hem in; enclose

to surround

to attack on all sides

attacked, assaulted by enemies

to set or place upon

trouble or threaten persistently.

surround and harass; assail on all sides:

SAMPLE SENTENCES:

Beset with difficulties.

The ship was beset by ice.

She was beset with self-doubt.

Poverty is a besetting problem.

I was beset by clouds of flies.

A gold bracelet beset with jewels.

A village beset on all sides by dense forest.

The social problems that beset the inner city.

In other words I am still beset by the hard problem.

A certain sin that so easily besets us and breaks fellowship.

Synonyms :

encircle, enclose, besiege, beleaguer. 3. stud, decorate, ornament.

Origin:

Old English besettan "to put, place; own, keep; occupy, settle; cover, surround with, besiege," from Proto-Germanic *bisatjan (cf. Old Saxon bisettjan, Dutch bezetten, Old High German bisezzan, German besetzen, Gothic bisatjan); see be- + set (v.). The figurative sense also was in Old English. Related: Beset (past tense); besetting.