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Another word for beset

VERB

  1. To set upon with violent force

    See also:

    attack

  2. To surround with hostile troops

    Idiom:

    lay siege to

    See also:

    attack

  3. To trouble persistently from or as if from all sides

    See also:

    attack

  4. To disturb by repeated attacks

    See also:

    pain

    feelings

  5. To shut in on all sides

    See also:

    open

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for beset

VERB

  1. See also:

    attack

    attack

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • As I began to teach her, I was beset by many difficulties.

  • The stomach is beset throughout its length with numerous small, finger-like caecal tubes.

  • 1596 or 1606), who visited Palestine in 1 575, has left a vivid description of the difficulties that then beset even so simple a journey as that from Jaffa to Jerusalem.

  • Not only have many travellers of many nationalities directed their steps towards the Bam-i-dunya ("the Roof of the World") in search of adventure or of scientific information, but the government surveys of Russia and India have met in these high altitudes, and there effected a connexion which will help to solve many of the geodetic problems which beset the superficial survey of Asia.

  • 1596 or 1606), who visited Palestine in 1 575, has left a vivid description of the difficulties that then beset even so simple a journey as that from Jaffa to Jerusalem.

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