'Beset' definitions:
Definition of 'beset'
(from WordNet)
verb
Annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]
verb
Assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards" [syn: beset, set upon]
verb
Definition of 'Beset'
From: GCIDE
- Beset \Be*set"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beset; p. pr. & vb. n. Besetting.] [AS. besettan (akin to OHG. bisazjan, G. besetzen, D. bezetten); pref. be- + settan to set. See Set.]
- 1. To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. [1913 Webster]
- A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Let thy troops beset our gates. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. "Adam, sore beset, replied." --Milton. "Beset with ills." --Addison. "Incommodities which beset old age." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To occupy; to employ; to use up. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To surround; inclose; environ; hem in; besiege; encircle; encompass; embarrass; urge; press. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beset'
From: GCIDE
- Beset \Be*set"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beset; p. pr. & vb. n. Besetting.] [AS. besettan (akin to OHG. bisazjan, G. besetzen, D. bezetten); pref. be- + settan to set. See Set.]
- 1. To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. [1913 Webster]
- A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Let thy troops beset our gates. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. "Adam, sore beset, replied." --Milton. "Beset with ills." --Addison. "Incommodities which beset old age." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To occupy; to employ; to use up. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To surround; inclose; environ; hem in; besiege; encircle; encompass; embarrass; urge; press. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'beset'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abashed,
- afflict,
- afflicted,
- aggravate,
- agitated,
- ail,
- annoy,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- apply pressure,
- assail,
- assault,
- attack,
- badger,
- badgered,
- bait,
- baited,
- barred,
- be at,
- be the matter,
- bedevil,
- bedeviled,
- beleaguer,
- beleaguered,
- besiege,
- besieged,
- blandish,
- blockade,
- blockaded,
- bother,
- bothered,
- bound,
- box in,
- bristle,
- brown off,
- bug,
- bugged,
- bullyrag,
- bullyragged,
- burn up,
- buttonhole,
- cabined,
- cage,
- caged,
- cajole,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chamber,
- chapfallen,
- chivied,
- chivy,
- circle,
- cloistered,
- close in,
- closed-in,
- coax,
- compass,
- compel,
- complicate matters,
- concern,
- confined,
- confused,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cooped,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- corral,
- corralled,
- cramped,
- crawl with,
- creep with,
- cribbed,
- devil,
- deviled,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discommode,
- discompose,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- distemper,
- distress,
- distressed,
- disturb,
- disturbed,
- dog,
- dogged,
- drive,
- dun,
- embarrassed,
- encircle,
- enclose,
- enclosed,
- encompass,
- enshrine,
- envelop,
- environ,
- exasperate,
- exercise,
- exert pressure,
- fall,
- fash,
- fence in,
- fenced,
- fret,
- fretted,
- gem,
- get,
- gird,
- girdle,
- grip,
- gripe,
- grubby,
- harass,
- harassed,
- harried,
- harry,
- haunt,
- haunted,
- heckle,
- heckled,
- hector,
- hectored,
- hedge in,
- hedged,
- hem,
- hem in,
- hemmed,
- hold,
- hound,
- hounded,
- house in,
- hung up,
- hunt,
- ill at ease,
- immured,
- impel,
- importune,
- impound,
- imprison,
- imprisoned,
- incarcerate,
- incarcerated,
- include,
- inconvenience,
- inconvenienced,
- infatuate,
- infest,
- infested,
- invade,
- invest,
- irk,
- irked,
- jail,
- jailed,
- jewel,
- kennel,
- lay siege to,
- leaguer,
- leaguered,
- lousy,
- mew,
- mew up,
- mewed,
- miff,
- molest,
- mortified,
- nag,
- nag at,
- needle,
- needled,
- nettle,
- nipped at,
- not let go,
- nudzh,
- obsess,
- oppress,
- out of countenance,
- overrun,
- overspread,
- overswarm,
- paled,
- pedicular,
- pediculous,
- peeve,
- pen,
- pen in,
- penned,
- pent-up,
- perplex,
- persecute,
- persecuted,
- perturb,
- perturbed,
- pester,
- pestered,
- pick on,
- picked on,
- pique,
- plague,
- plagued,
- pluck the beard,
- ply,
- pocket,
- possess,
- pother,
- preoccupy,
- press,
- pressure,
- provoke,
- pursue,
- push,
- put out,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- puzzle,
- puzzled,
- quarantine,
- quarantined,
- ragged,
- rail in,
- railed,
- ratty,
- ravage,
- ravaged,
- restrained,
- ride,
- rile,
- ring,
- roil,
- ruffle,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- shut-in,
- soften up,
- sore beset,
- stable,
- storm,
- strike,
- surround,
- swarm,
- swarm with,
- tease,
- teased,
- teeming,
- torment,
- tormented,
- trouble,
- troubled,
- try the patience,
- tweak the nose,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- urge,
- vex,
- vexed,
- victimize,
- wall in,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- wheedle,
- work on,
- wormy,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff,
- worry,
- wrap,
- yard,
- yard up