beset
verb (used with object)
to attack on all sides; assail.
had been besetting
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past perfect progressiveof beset.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He was glad to have the matter settled for him, and to be saved from the temptation that had been besetting him these ten days past.
From Half a Hero A Novel by Anthony Hope
I was confident Mrs. Dennison had been besetting him again, for he was pale and looked fiercely excited.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
