beset
/bəˈsɛt/ verbo C2En español: asediar, sitiar, cercar, circuir
- To assail or attack (someone) from all sides; to set about.
- To occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing.
- To decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc.
- Of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something); to trouble.
Plural beset · He/she/it besets · Pasado beset · Participio pasado beset · Forma en -ing besetting
Formas del verbo
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De la biblioteca
But then, Diana, even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else.
Allan about besetting sins last Sunday afternoon.
My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties.
Everyone, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes’ theory of pressure and impulsion.
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