bedevil
verb (used with object)
to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
has bedevilled
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present perfectof bedevil (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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On Thursday China indicated it wasn't budging on the map - the disputed border is an issue which has bedevilled relations for years.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2023
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
The administration of President Joe Biden says its review of North Korea policy will be finished in coming months, before announcing its plans for handling a rolling crisis that has bedevilled generations of U.S. presidents.
From Reuters ● Mar. 4, 2021
The discrepancy has bedevilled researchers for nearly 15 years.
From Nature ● Apr. 14, 2019
Only see how he has bedevilled and dirtied my room; pretty work, indeed, when I have had colonels for lodgers seven years together, and Anna Petròvna Buchmìsteroff!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
