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Another word for beset

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beset

v.

besiege, assail, plague, harass; see attack 1, 2. See syn. study at attack.

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Another word for beset

verb

To set upon with violent force:
aggress, assail, assault, attack, fall on (or upon), go at, have at, sail into, storm, strike. (Informal) light into, pitch into. See attack
To surround with hostile troops:
beleaguer, besiege, blockade, invest, siege. Idiom: lay siege to . See attack
To trouble persistently from or as if from all sides:
badger, bedevil, beleaguer, besiege, harass, harry, hound, importune, pester, plague, solicit. See attack
To disturb by repeated attacks:
annoy, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease, torment, worry. See feelings, pain
To shut in on all sides:
begird, circle, compass, encircle, encompass, environ, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, ring¹, surround. See open

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The other, a law of peace, work and health, whose only aim is to deliver man from the calamities which beset him.
They are composed of only from ' six to nine segments, which are beset with prominent spines, some of the latter appearing to be organs of special sense.
Its inner surface is furnished with ridges beset with series of minute, bristle-like, erect, horny teeth, each of which, when strongly magnified, is seen to be formed of a column of superposed cones, hollowed out at the base and capping each other; the summit or crown of each of these cones is expanded, spatulate, hooked backwards, and often multicuspid.
In Plotus, the snakebird, the pyloric chamber of the stomach is beset with a mass of hair-like stiff filaments which permit nothing but fluid to pass into the duodenum.
Subdivision of the continental portion is beset with great difficulties, and none of the numerous attempts have proved long-lived.

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