beset
verb (used with object)
to attack on all sides; assail.
besets
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present tense formof beset (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The accounts of ramming must also be seen through the panic that naturally besets humans when they encounter such enormous animals.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Mr Vance credits that stability with his success in lifting himself out of the poverty that besets the Appalachians.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2021
The logistical confusion that sometimes besets the narrative, splintering outward even as it barrels toward its grim conclusion, is matched by creeping undercurrents of doubt and anxiety at every turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2021
First, it emphasizes that even the MCU isn't free from the class conflict that besets the real world.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2019
The "evil principle," in the shape of his two brothers, Carl and Johann, incessantly besets him, and pursues him wherever he goes.
From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler
