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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A similar problem besets Georgia's On Replay – a generic club track with a tra-la-la chorus.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Researchers have now gained new insights into how that water pollution is creating air pollution that besets nearby communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
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
While armed conflict besets much of the country, Beileh’s ministry and al-Shabab now compete over the most basic function of governance: to collect revenue and provide services.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2019
Nevertheless, when a problem is given out, so long as it is not solved, it troubles and besets the human mind.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
