bedevil
verb (used with object)
to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
bedevilled
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past participleof bedevil.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bedevil.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
bedevilverb (used with object)to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
Example Sentences
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The financial hit incurred from the industrial action, confirmed to Reuters by a third source inside the company, follows a record loss in 2022 when the utility was bedevilled by reactor outages.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2023
Or, thanks to streaming services, we can keep the same six or seven albums from 2001-2009 on repeat for the rest of our crisis bedevilled lives.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
“Progress in arms control is also bedevilled by Newton’s Law,” he wrote in a 1987 essay.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
Radio interference has bedevilled other astronomical searches before, such as when flickering signals picked up at Parkes turned out to be the result of people microwaving their lunches.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2021
Ellis said, after a silence: "That gambling outfit from the West has bedevilled one or two good citizens in Gotham town."
From The Danger Mark by A. B. Wenzell
