beset

In her speech, Rice mentioned Iraq once, as a “fragile democracy” beset by “internal strife and hostile neighbors.”

The transportation of certain kinds of seeds over long distances, especially on sea voyages, is often beset with difficulties.

Your men returned at noon yesterday and told me of the ambush in which they had been beset.

She was in no condition to be left alone, this delicate and fragile child, defenceless and beset.

But in time I overcame such difficulties as beset me, and soon learned to spend thousands of dollars with comparative ease.

He meant well, and tried to do well, and he did not struggle in vain against the trials and temptations that beset him.