bedevil
verb (used with object)
to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
were bedeviling
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past progressiveof bedevil.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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This was the Stubborn Factor with whom Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill would one day soon sit down to review the stubborn facts that were bedeviling the Big Three.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bud was oblivious, for he had come into Bennett's Woods to try to solve the problems that were bedeviling him.
From The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard
