beset
verb (used with object)
to attack on all sides; assail.
will beset
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future tenseof beset.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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His look of paralyzed indecision as he stares at a vast display of bath towels prefigures the dilemmas that will beset him throughout the movie.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2018
Automation bias will beset hearing officers, making a bad situation far worse.
From Slate ● May 8, 2018
After the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972, the African boycott in 1976 and the current one, no one knows what problems will beset the 23rd Olympiad.
From Time Magazine Archive
These new thoughts will beset and torment me.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
Just such perils as these will beset anybody who ventures to disturb the adjustments of the "Prayer Book as it is" and to introduce desirable additions.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
