beset
verb (used with object)
to attack on all sides; assail.
are besetting
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present progressiveof beset.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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No doubt these are besetting sins with them, as with all nations who are educated under a system which makes submission to authority the chief virtue.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
