beset
verb (used with object)
to attack on all sides; assail.
have been besetting
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present perfect progressiveof beset.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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For all the agitation that must have been besetting him, his manner was serene as ever.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini
