Synonyms for beset
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bih-set |
| Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈsɛt |
Top 10 synonyms for beset Other synonyms for the word beset
- attack
- badger
- bug
- circle
- compass
- dog
- drive up the wall
- encircle
- enclose
- encompass
- entangle
- environ
- fall on
- fall upon
- girdle
- give a bad time
- give a hard time
- give one the business
- give the needle
- harass
- harry
- hassle
- infest
- jump on one's case
- nag
- nudge
- pester
- pick on
- put the squeeze on
- ride
- ring
- start in on
- storm
- strike
Définition of beset
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.
- verb plague; hem in
- They are putty in the hands of the fears and forces that beset them from without.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Touring it through the Causses seemed, indeed, beset with difficulties.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- He was beset on either side by the merciless fangs of his erstwhile comrades.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Such was his own experience that he was beset by the gravest doubts.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- I have been so hunted and beset by this man, that I knew my only hope of safety lay in joining them.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- He felt as if the Sicilian were beset by an imperious need to break a long reserve.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- Possibly the suspicion, the fear that beset him was groundless.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- She could not put into words the memories that beset her stricken consciousness.
- Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
- All summer long that man has beset me to go to 'em, for he wouldn't go without me.
- Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various
- But in truth he is trying to get rid of the stumbling-blocks of thought which beset his contemporaries.
- Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
Antonyms for beset
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