Bedeviling
to torment or har-ss maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
to possess, as with a devil; bewitch.
to cause confusion or doubt in; muddle; confound:
an issue bedeviled by prejudices.
to beset or hamper continuously:
a new building bedeviled by elevator failures.
historical examples
and as the bedeviling thing had begun, so it had continued, losing none of its potency for evil.
the price francis lynde
in less than two years the world was rid of most of what had been bedeviling it.
and all the earth a grave carroll m. capps (aka c.c. macapp)
bud was oblivious, for he had come into bennett’s woods to try to solve the problems that were bedeviling him.
the black fawn james arthur kjelgaard
suzanne was bedeviling him by her support and communications.
the “genius” theodore dreiser
verb (transitive) -ils, -illing, -illed (us) -ils, -iling, -iled
to har-ss or torment
to throw into confusion
to possess, as with a devil
v.
1768, “to treat diabolically, abuse,” from be- + verbal use of devil (q.v.). meaning “to mischievously confuse” is from 1755; that of “to drive frantic” is from 1823. related: bedeviled (1570s, in a literal sense, “possessed”); bedeviling.
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