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Examples of beset
beset
The show was beset by numerous stops and starts, even a heckler in the audience.
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Kiir worries that America, beset by its own domestic crises, is losing interest.
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Construction and infrastructure projects had been beset by delays and obstacles.
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South Africa inflicted a 2-1 defeat on a French team beset with internal strife.
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They see a nation recoiling from its young like W.C. Fields beset by Baby Leroy.
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Maybe we're not immune to the societal afflictions that have beset other states.
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Ostensibly, the idea is to set up a safety net for farmers beset by bad weather.
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There would be no cranks, columnists and newshawks to beset him from a distance.
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Mr Fletcher's term was beset with legal troubles that turned voters against him.
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- Harass: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
- Assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards"
- Encrust: decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
- Bes (also spelled as Bisu) was an Egyptian deity worshipped in the later periods of dynastic history as a protector of households and in particular mothers and children. In time he would be regarded as the defender of everything good and the enemy of all that is bad. ...
- To surround or hem in; To attack, especially from all sides; To decorate something with jewels etc; Of a ship, to get trapped by ice
- Surrounded. eg - a bee hive beset with bees diversely volant.
- Said of a vessel when she is entirely surrounded by ice.
