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Bedevil
bedevil
(bedevils, bedevilling, bedevilled) Note: in AM, use 'bedeviling', 'bedeviled' If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time. (FORMAL) His career was bedevilled by injury. ...a problem that has bedevilled service industries for decades. = beset VERB: be V-ed, V n
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1.
transitive verb Date: 1574 1. to possess with or as if with a devil 2. to cause distress ; trouble 3. to change for the worse ; spoil 4. to confuse utterly ; bewilder • ~ment noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
v.tr. (bedevilled, bedevilling; US bedeviled, bedeviling) 1 plague; afflict. 2 confound; confuse. 3 possess as if with a devil; bewitch. 4 treat with diabolical violence or abuse. Derivatives bedevilment n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. путать, сбивать с толку to be bedevilled in a mass of figures —- запутаться в цифрах 2. мучить, терзать, изводить 3. портить; извращать, искажать 4. околдовать, сглазить; напустить порчу ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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5.
~ v bedevilled BrE bedeviled AmE T usually passive to cause a lot of problems and difficulties for someone or something (a society bedevilled by racial tensions) - bedevilment n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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