Definition of beset in English:

beset

verbbesetting bɪˈsɛtbəˈsɛt

[with object]

1(of a problem or difficulty) trouble (someone or something) persistently.
（问题，困难）困扰，使苦恼，威胁
the social problems that beset the UK
困扰英国的社会问题。
she was beset with self-doubt
她被自我怀疑困扰着。
Example sentencesExamples
- Everyone hopes that the next president will be able to gradually resolve the problems besetting our country.
- The vast majority of them are beset with multiple problems: Most lack job skills and are chronically unemployed or at best underemployed.
- Rawlinson's career was beset by difficulties.
- Nevertheless, since the assistance comes after the election, independents are still beset by financial difficulties.
- Agencies are fighting to get boats in the harbour to take them to the marooned populations, but negotiations are also beset with difficulties.
- Did they solve any social problem besetting equality and brotherhood of human beings?
- Your editorials are thought-provoking in addressing the myriad problems besetting our profession today.
- She stresses her position as a widow-not only a woman beset by financial difficulties but a woman with no husband to guide her and supervise the family's political role.
- These were troubled times for Mozart: his father and four children all died, Constanze was very ill and financial problems beset him as the economy took a downturn and musicians found themselves unemployed.
- The west coast line is still beset with problems over the cost and timescale of a planned modernisation.
- The real problem besetting racing will not rear its head in the next few weeks, or even months.
- He puts his finger on the key problems besetting the modern nation-state, analyzes them with admirable clarity and then uses such analysis to reach conclusions that are the diametric opposite of what they should be.
- Almost every major building project is invariably beset with difficulty.
- Britain's nationalised rail system was always beset with major difficulties.
- It is on this note that the Year of the Child steering committee was formed with the aim to focus attention on children's issues and address the myriad problems besetting the nation's children.
- But the effectiveness of schemes of this kind is unproven, and in today's world of unfettered trade flows, their implementation is often beset with legal difficulties.
- As if the many other problems besetting agriculture at the present time were not enough, the weather is now heaping further woe on those who earn a living off the land.
- The Chronicle claims that ‘other Secondary Schools in the country are beset with similar problems that are waiting to implode’.
- In short, the agenda is all encompassing and all stakeholders should support the process to move out of the current problems besetting the country.
- Structural problems have beset tourism for some years now.
Synonyms
plague, bedevil, attack, assail, beleaguer, afflict, torment, torture, rack, oppress, trouble, worry, bother, harass, hound, harry, dog
1. 1.1 Surround and harass.
  围攻
  I was beset by clouds of flies
  成群的苍蝇在我周围飞个不停。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The children, in this region, are besieged by AIDS and beset by hunger.
  Cemeteries are shrouded in mist and beset by locusts.
  The sun was gloriously illuminating the two men to the west, though both were beset by threatening dark clouds above them.
  Even conventional farmers in California, beset by the heat wave there, are learning how fragile those presumptions can be, as they complain of wine grapes shriveled into raisins.
  It is a grim pilgrimage, a pilgrimage under duress, during which he is beset by threatening forces which he cannot fathom and yet needs to comprehend if he is to survive.
  Biting insects are at best a nuisance, but imagine an individual in a hut, sick with a high fever and beset by swarms of biting insects to add to their torment.
  He saw squalid settlements peppered with litter, tireless abandoned cars and children of impoverished natives beset by clouds of flies.
  Their path was soon beset by swarms of Aztecs, who rolled down rocks from the eminences, and grievously annoyed them with missiles.
  They are beset by terrible dangers.
  Living on a dollar per day, our cooking was done out in the open air, beset by flies and mosquitoes, heat and humidity.
  Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive.
  There the teen-age detectives are constantly beset by vicious henchmen of a criminal mastermind.
  She is beset by threatening men everywhere she turns, men she doesn't trust even as they offer help.
  The hanging fruit of a dwarf five-in-one pear tree was damaged by birds, after which the damaged fruit was beset by wasps, yellow jackets, flies and gnats.
  We were beset by swarms of agitated wasps.
  Synonyms
  surround, besiege, hem in, shut in, fence in, box in, encircle, ring round, enclose
2. 1.2 Hem in.
  包围住
  the ship was beset by ice and finally sank
  船被冰围着，最后沉没了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the middle of February the ship was beset and never got free again.
  The ship was beset for nine months during which time they disproved the existence of South Greenland which had been shown on maps since 1823.
  The ship was beset by pack ice and drifted south for 12 months, becoming the first exploring vessel to winter south of the Antarctic Circle.
  The ship became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November.
  Mary was still dazed as she found herself sitting in the living room of her own house, beset on both sides by her parents.
  Henri inherited a bitterly divided nation, ravaged by international and civil war, beset on all sides by the mighty Habsburg empire, and bankrupt.
  Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany.
  The apartment also had a small built in kitchen, but that was only a small fridge beset by a sink and a washer, all equally dingy and small.
  The ship was beset and drifted for months in bitter cold, heaved upon a mound of ice.
  The Antarctic winter closed in before Deutschland could escape to lower latitudes and the ship was beset and drifted for nine months.
  She was immediately beset on all sides as her own group and Liza's group mobbed her.
  She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
  The Polar Duke, our ice-worthy Norwegian vessel, was immobilized - beset, to use the correct nautical term - by enormous sheets of sea ice.
  A sprinkling of volcanic rock in the Pacific, they are 600 miles east of their nearest land mass, and beset on all sides by seven mighty ocean currents.
  Once the ship was beset, they were soon to become close companions of the men trapped on the ice.
2be beset witharchaic Be covered or studded with.
〈古〉被…覆盖，镶嵌着
springy grass all beset with tiny jewel-like flowers
松软的草地上到处都开满了像宝石一样的小花。
Example sentencesExamples
- He wore a golden mitre beset with precious stones, and bore in his left hand a golden crosier, and in his right a pair of goldsmith's tongs.
- And when she opened it, she found garments beset with gold and with jewels, more splendid than those of any king's daughter.
- For millennia people have been adorning themselves with colorful accessories, made of precious metals, beset with jewels, and decorated with wonderful patterns.
- Only a costly silver ring beset with rubies that glittered on one finger denoted his status as being above that of ordinary men.
- On the upper part of the chariot lay an effigy, representing his person in royal robes, with an imperial crown of gold, beset with jewels of an inestimable value on its head, with a sceptre in the right hand, and a globe in the left.

Phrases

besetting sin

A fault to which a person or institution is especially prone.
易犯的过失
there was a danger of the country reverting to its besetting sin of complacency
Example sentencesExamples
- Today they are more conscious of failures, habits and besetting sins which cause enormous guilt.
- Yet it's the besetting sin of the professional class to render itself invisible in its own calculations.
- Yet Paul's besetting sin is apparently covetousness.
- Nevertheless it is necessary to watch for his besetting sins, and correct them whenever they occur.
- The besetting sin of local government elected councillors is that they begin to develop a kind of mini-megalomania - an obsession with their own importance as the lowest of the low of elected representatives.
- In her book, the author says: ‘Pride is the besetting sin of the anorexic: pride in her self-denial, in her thin body, in her superiority.
- He has a piece in today's Washington Post in which he argues that the besetting sin of today's journalists is arrogance.
- Condoned truancy and absence is one of the besetting sins of the education service.
- This was one of the besetting sins of the Pharisees.
- Such behaviour is the besetting sin of psychology and renders science in the field concerned impossible.
- The author asserts that they have difficulty in dealing with temptations and besetting sins because ‘they are both at peace in the world and divided among themselves’.
- They sometimes give way to inconsistencies and besetting sins, and lose their sense of pardon.
- To subject a decision of the court or tribunal below to too narrow a textual analysis is a besetting sin for the appellate court.
- His theory is that the Party's besetting sin over the past few decades has been snobbery.
- The besetting sins of oppressed people may include self-denial, passivity and complicity in their own oppression.
- Wrath is, as regular readers know, one of my besetting sins.
Synonyms
persistent, constant, recurrent, recurring

Origin

Old English besettan, from be- 'about' + settan (see set¹).

Rhymes

abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette

Definition of beset in US English:

beset

verbbəˈsetbəˈsɛt

[with object]

1(of a problem or difficulty) trouble or threaten persistently.
（问题，困难）困扰，使苦恼，威胁
the social problems that beset the inner city
困扰英国的社会问题。
she was beset with self-doubt
她被自我怀疑困扰着。
as adjective poverty is a besetting problem
Example sentencesExamples
- In short, the agenda is all encompassing and all stakeholders should support the process to move out of the current problems besetting the country.
- Your editorials are thought-provoking in addressing the myriad problems besetting our profession today.
- Almost every major building project is invariably beset with difficulty.
- Britain's nationalised rail system was always beset with major difficulties.
- The vast majority of them are beset with multiple problems: Most lack job skills and are chronically unemployed or at best underemployed.
- But the effectiveness of schemes of this kind is unproven, and in today's world of unfettered trade flows, their implementation is often beset with legal difficulties.
- The west coast line is still beset with problems over the cost and timescale of a planned modernisation.
- The Chronicle claims that ‘other Secondary Schools in the country are beset with similar problems that are waiting to implode’.
- These were troubled times for Mozart: his father and four children all died, Constanze was very ill and financial problems beset him as the economy took a downturn and musicians found themselves unemployed.
- It is on this note that the Year of the Child steering committee was formed with the aim to focus attention on children's issues and address the myriad problems besetting the nation's children.
- Everyone hopes that the next president will be able to gradually resolve the problems besetting our country.
- Rawlinson's career was beset by difficulties.
- Nevertheless, since the assistance comes after the election, independents are still beset by financial difficulties.
- Did they solve any social problem besetting equality and brotherhood of human beings?
- As if the many other problems besetting agriculture at the present time were not enough, the weather is now heaping further woe on those who earn a living off the land.
- He puts his finger on the key problems besetting the modern nation-state, analyzes them with admirable clarity and then uses such analysis to reach conclusions that are the diametric opposite of what they should be.
- She stresses her position as a widow-not only a woman beset by financial difficulties but a woman with no husband to guide her and supervise the family's political role.
- The real problem besetting racing will not rear its head in the next few weeks, or even months.
- Agencies are fighting to get boats in the harbour to take them to the marooned populations, but negotiations are also beset with difficulties.
- Structural problems have beset tourism for some years now.
Synonyms
plague, bedevil, attack, assail, beleaguer, afflict, torment, torture, rack, oppress, trouble, worry, bother, harass, hound, harry, dog
1. 1.1 Surround and harass; assail on all sides.
  I was beset by clouds of flies
  成群的苍蝇在我周围飞个不停。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Biting insects are at best a nuisance, but imagine an individual in a hut, sick with a high fever and beset by swarms of biting insects to add to their torment.
  There the teen-age detectives are constantly beset by vicious henchmen of a criminal mastermind.
  He saw squalid settlements peppered with litter, tireless abandoned cars and children of impoverished natives beset by clouds of flies.
  The sun was gloriously illuminating the two men to the west, though both were beset by threatening dark clouds above them.
  The hanging fruit of a dwarf five-in-one pear tree was damaged by birds, after which the damaged fruit was beset by wasps, yellow jackets, flies and gnats.
  She is beset by threatening men everywhere she turns, men she doesn't trust even as they offer help.
  We were beset by swarms of agitated wasps.
  The children, in this region, are besieged by AIDS and beset by hunger.
  Even conventional farmers in California, beset by the heat wave there, are learning how fragile those presumptions can be, as they complain of wine grapes shriveled into raisins.
  They are beset by terrible dangers.
  Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive.
  Their path was soon beset by swarms of Aztecs, who rolled down rocks from the eminences, and grievously annoyed them with missiles.
  It is a grim pilgrimage, a pilgrimage under duress, during which he is beset by threatening forces which he cannot fathom and yet needs to comprehend if he is to survive.
  Living on a dollar per day, our cooking was done out in the open air, beset by flies and mosquitoes, heat and humidity.
  Cemeteries are shrouded in mist and beset by locusts.
  Synonyms
  surround, besiege, hem in, shut in, fence in, box in, encircle, ring round, enclose
2. 1.2 Hem in; enclose.
  the ship was beset by ice
  船被冰围着，最后沉没了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ship became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November.
  She was immediately beset on all sides as her own group and Liza's group mobbed her.
  The Antarctic winter closed in before Deutschland could escape to lower latitudes and the ship was beset and drifted for nine months.
  Mary was still dazed as she found herself sitting in the living room of her own house, beset on both sides by her parents.
  The apartment also had a small built in kitchen, but that was only a small fridge beset by a sink and a washer, all equally dingy and small.
  The Polar Duke, our ice-worthy Norwegian vessel, was immobilized - beset, to use the correct nautical term - by enormous sheets of sea ice.
  Once the ship was beset, they were soon to become close companions of the men trapped on the ice.
  Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany.
  Henri inherited a bitterly divided nation, ravaged by international and civil war, beset on all sides by the mighty Habsburg empire, and bankrupt.
  The ship was beset by pack ice and drifted south for 12 months, becoming the first exploring vessel to winter south of the Antarctic Circle.
  The ship was beset and drifted for months in bitter cold, heaved upon a mound of ice.
  In the middle of February the ship was beset and never got free again.
  The ship was beset for nine months during which time they disproved the existence of South Greenland which had been shown on maps since 1823.
  A sprinkling of volcanic rock in the Pacific, they are 600 miles east of their nearest land mass, and beset on all sides by seven mighty ocean currents.
  She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
2be beset witharchaic Be covered or studded with.
〈古〉被…覆盖，镶嵌着
blades of grass beset with glistening drops of dew
Example sentencesExamples
- For millennia people have been adorning themselves with colorful accessories, made of precious metals, beset with jewels, and decorated with wonderful patterns.
- Only a costly silver ring beset with rubies that glittered on one finger denoted his status as being above that of ordinary men.
- On the upper part of the chariot lay an effigy, representing his person in royal robes, with an imperial crown of gold, beset with jewels of an inestimable value on its head, with a sceptre in the right hand, and a globe in the left.
- He wore a golden mitre beset with precious stones, and bore in his left hand a golden crosier, and in his right a pair of goldsmith's tongs.
- And when she opened it, she found garments beset with gold and with jewels, more splendid than those of any king's daughter.

Origin

Old English besettan, from be- ‘about’ + settan (see set).

单词	beset
释义	Definition of beset in English: beset verbbesetting bɪˈsɛtbəˈsɛt [with object] 1(of a problem or difficulty) trouble (someone or something) persistently. （问题，困难）困扰，使苦恼，威胁 the social problems that beset the UK 困扰英国的社会问题。 she was beset with self-doubt 她被自我怀疑困扰着。 Example sentencesExamples Everyone hopes that the next president will be able to gradually resolve the problems besetting our country. The vast majority of them are beset with multiple problems: Most lack job skills and are chronically unemployed or at best underemployed. Rawlinson's career was beset by difficulties. Nevertheless, since the assistance comes after the election, independents are still beset by financial difficulties. Agencies are fighting to get boats in the harbour to take them to the marooned populations, but negotiations are also beset with difficulties. Did they solve any social problem besetting equality and brotherhood of human beings? Your editorials are thought-provoking in addressing the myriad problems besetting our profession today. She stresses her position as a widow-not only a woman beset by financial difficulties but a woman with no husband to guide her and supervise the family's political role. These were troubled times for Mozart: his father and four children all died, Constanze was very ill and financial problems beset him as the economy took a downturn and musicians found themselves unemployed. The west coast line is still beset with problems over the cost and timescale of a planned modernisation. The real problem besetting racing will not rear its head in the next few weeks, or even months. He puts his finger on the key problems besetting the modern nation-state, analyzes them with admirable clarity and then uses such analysis to reach conclusions that are the diametric opposite of what they should be. Almost every major building project is invariably beset with difficulty. Britain's nationalised rail system was always beset with major difficulties. It is on this note that the Year of the Child steering committee was formed with the aim to focus attention on children's issues and address the myriad problems besetting the nation's children. But the effectiveness of schemes of this kind is unproven, and in today's world of unfettered trade flows, their implementation is often beset with legal difficulties. As if the many other problems besetting agriculture at the present time were not enough, the weather is now heaping further woe on those who earn a living off the land. The Chronicle claims that ‘other Secondary Schools in the country are beset with similar problems that are waiting to implode’. In short, the agenda is all encompassing and all stakeholders should support the process to move out of the current problems besetting the country. Structural problems have beset tourism for some years now. Synonyms plague, bedevil, attack, assail, beleaguer, afflict, torment, torture, rack, oppress, trouble, worry, bother, harass, hound, harry, dog 1.1 Surround and harass. 围攻 I was beset by clouds of flies 成群的苍蝇在我周围飞个不停。 Example sentencesExamples The children, in this region, are besieged by AIDS and beset by hunger. Cemeteries are shrouded in mist and beset by locusts. The sun was gloriously illuminating the two men to the west, though both were beset by threatening dark clouds above them. Even conventional farmers in California, beset by the heat wave there, are learning how fragile those presumptions can be, as they complain of wine grapes shriveled into raisins. It is a grim pilgrimage, a pilgrimage under duress, during which he is beset by threatening forces which he cannot fathom and yet needs to comprehend if he is to survive. Biting insects are at best a nuisance, but imagine an individual in a hut, sick with a high fever and beset by swarms of biting insects to add to their torment. He saw squalid settlements peppered with litter, tireless abandoned cars and children of impoverished natives beset by clouds of flies. Their path was soon beset by swarms of Aztecs, who rolled down rocks from the eminences, and grievously annoyed them with missiles. They are beset by terrible dangers. Living on a dollar per day, our cooking was done out in the open air, beset by flies and mosquitoes, heat and humidity. Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive. There the teen-age detectives are constantly beset by vicious henchmen of a criminal mastermind. She is beset by threatening men everywhere she turns, men she doesn't trust even as they offer help. The hanging fruit of a dwarf five-in-one pear tree was damaged by birds, after which the damaged fruit was beset by wasps, yellow jackets, flies and gnats. We were beset by swarms of agitated wasps. Synonyms surround, besiege, hem in, shut in, fence in, box in, encircle, ring round, enclose 1.2 Hem in. 包围住 the ship was beset by ice and finally sank 船被冰围着，最后沉没了。 Example sentencesExamples In the middle of February the ship was beset and never got free again. The ship was beset for nine months during which time they disproved the existence of South Greenland which had been shown on maps since 1823. The ship was beset by pack ice and drifted south for 12 months, becoming the first exploring vessel to winter south of the Antarctic Circle. The ship became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November. Mary was still dazed as she found herself sitting in the living room of her own house, beset on both sides by her parents. Henri inherited a bitterly divided nation, ravaged by international and civil war, beset on all sides by the mighty Habsburg empire, and bankrupt. Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany. The apartment also had a small built in kitchen, but that was only a small fridge beset by a sink and a washer, all equally dingy and small. The ship was beset and drifted for months in bitter cold, heaved upon a mound of ice. The Antarctic winter closed in before Deutschland could escape to lower latitudes and the ship was beset and drifted for nine months. She was immediately beset on all sides as her own group and Liza's group mobbed her. She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end. The Polar Duke, our ice-worthy Norwegian vessel, was immobilized - beset, to use the correct nautical term - by enormous sheets of sea ice. A sprinkling of volcanic rock in the Pacific, they are 600 miles east of their nearest land mass, and beset on all sides by seven mighty ocean currents. Once the ship was beset, they were soon to become close companions of the men trapped on the ice. 2be beset witharchaic Be covered or studded with. 〈古〉被…覆盖，镶嵌着 springy grass all beset with tiny jewel-like flowers 松软的草地上到处都开满了像宝石一样的小花。 Example sentencesExamples He wore a golden mitre beset with precious stones, and bore in his left hand a golden crosier, and in his right a pair of goldsmith's tongs. And when she opened it, she found garments beset with gold and with jewels, more splendid than those of any king's daughter. For millennia people have been adorning themselves with colorful accessories, made of precious metals, beset with jewels, and decorated with wonderful patterns. Only a costly silver ring beset with rubies that glittered on one finger denoted his status as being above that of ordinary men. On the upper part of the chariot lay an effigy, representing his person in royal robes, with an imperial crown of gold, beset with jewels of an inestimable value on its head, with a sceptre in the right hand, and a globe in the left. Phrases besetting sin A fault to which a person or institution is especially prone. 易犯的过失 there was a danger of the country reverting to its besetting sin of complacency Example sentencesExamples Today they are more conscious of failures, habits and besetting sins which cause enormous guilt. Yet it's the besetting sin of the professional class to render itself invisible in its own calculations. Yet Paul's besetting sin is apparently covetousness. Nevertheless it is necessary to watch for his besetting sins, and correct them whenever they occur. The besetting sin of local government elected councillors is that they begin to develop a kind of mini-megalomania - an obsession with their own importance as the lowest of the low of elected representatives. In her book, the author says: ‘Pride is the besetting sin of the anorexic: pride in her self-denial, in her thin body, in her superiority. He has a piece in today's Washington Post in which he argues that the besetting sin of today's journalists is arrogance. Condoned truancy and absence is one of the besetting sins of the education service. This was one of the besetting sins of the Pharisees. Such behaviour is the besetting sin of psychology and renders science in the field concerned impossible. The author asserts that they have difficulty in dealing with temptations and besetting sins because ‘they are both at peace in the world and divided among themselves’. They sometimes give way to inconsistencies and besetting sins, and lose their sense of pardon. To subject a decision of the court or tribunal below to too narrow a textual analysis is a besetting sin for the appellate court. His theory is that the Party's besetting sin over the past few decades has been snobbery. The besetting sins of oppressed people may include self-denial, passivity and complicity in their own oppression. Wrath is, as regular readers know, one of my besetting sins. Synonyms persistent, constant, recurrent, recurring Origin Old English besettan, from be- 'about' + settan (see set¹). Rhymes abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette verb.1 phr. Definition of beset in US English: beset verbbəˈsetbəˈsɛt [with object] 1(of a problem or difficulty) trouble or threaten persistently. （问题，困难）困扰，使苦恼，威胁 the social problems that beset the inner city 困扰英国的社会问题。 she was beset with self-doubt 她被自我怀疑困扰着。 as adjective poverty is a besetting problem Example sentencesExamples In short, the agenda is all encompassing and all stakeholders should support the process to move out of the current problems besetting the country. Your editorials are thought-provoking in addressing the myriad problems besetting our profession today. Almost every major building project is invariably beset with difficulty. Britain's nationalised rail system was always beset with major difficulties. The vast majority of them are beset with multiple problems: Most lack job skills and are chronically unemployed or at best underemployed. But the effectiveness of schemes of this kind is unproven, and in today's world of unfettered trade flows, their implementation is often beset with legal difficulties. The west coast line is still beset with problems over the cost and timescale of a planned modernisation. The Chronicle claims that ‘other Secondary Schools in the country are beset with similar problems that are waiting to implode’. These were troubled times for Mozart: his father and four children all died, Constanze was very ill and financial problems beset him as the economy took a downturn and musicians found themselves unemployed. It is on this note that the Year of the Child steering committee was formed with the aim to focus attention on children's issues and address the myriad problems besetting the nation's children. Everyone hopes that the next president will be able to gradually resolve the problems besetting our country. Rawlinson's career was beset by difficulties. Nevertheless, since the assistance comes after the election, independents are still beset by financial difficulties. Did they solve any social problem besetting equality and brotherhood of human beings? As if the many other problems besetting agriculture at the present time were not enough, the weather is now heaping further woe on those who earn a living off the land. He puts his finger on the key problems besetting the modern nation-state, analyzes them with admirable clarity and then uses such analysis to reach conclusions that are the diametric opposite of what they should be. She stresses her position as a widow-not only a woman beset by financial difficulties but a woman with no husband to guide her and supervise the family's political role. The real problem besetting racing will not rear its head in the next few weeks, or even months. Agencies are fighting to get boats in the harbour to take them to the marooned populations, but negotiations are also beset with difficulties. Structural problems have beset tourism for some years now. Synonyms plague, bedevil, attack, assail, beleaguer, afflict, torment, torture, rack, oppress, trouble, worry, bother, harass, hound, harry, dog 1.1 Surround and harass; assail on all sides. I was beset by clouds of flies 成群的苍蝇在我周围飞个不停。 Example sentencesExamples Biting insects are at best a nuisance, but imagine an individual in a hut, sick with a high fever and beset by swarms of biting insects to add to their torment. There the teen-age detectives are constantly beset by vicious henchmen of a criminal mastermind. He saw squalid settlements peppered with litter, tireless abandoned cars and children of impoverished natives beset by clouds of flies. The sun was gloriously illuminating the two men to the west, though both were beset by threatening dark clouds above them. The hanging fruit of a dwarf five-in-one pear tree was damaged by birds, after which the damaged fruit was beset by wasps, yellow jackets, flies and gnats. She is beset by threatening men everywhere she turns, men she doesn't trust even as they offer help. We were beset by swarms of agitated wasps. The children, in this region, are besieged by AIDS and beset by hunger. Even conventional farmers in California, beset by the heat wave there, are learning how fragile those presumptions can be, as they complain of wine grapes shriveled into raisins. They are beset by terrible dangers. Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive. Their path was soon beset by swarms of Aztecs, who rolled down rocks from the eminences, and grievously annoyed them with missiles. It is a grim pilgrimage, a pilgrimage under duress, during which he is beset by threatening forces which he cannot fathom and yet needs to comprehend if he is to survive. Living on a dollar per day, our cooking was done out in the open air, beset by flies and mosquitoes, heat and humidity. Cemeteries are shrouded in mist and beset by locusts. Synonyms surround, besiege, hem in, shut in, fence in, box in, encircle, ring round, enclose 1.2 Hem in; enclose. the ship was beset by ice 船被冰围着，最后沉没了。 Example sentencesExamples The ship became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November. She was immediately beset on all sides as her own group and Liza's group mobbed her. The Antarctic winter closed in before Deutschland could escape to lower latitudes and the ship was beset and drifted for nine months. Mary was still dazed as she found herself sitting in the living room of her own house, beset on both sides by her parents. The apartment also had a small built in kitchen, but that was only a small fridge beset by a sink and a washer, all equally dingy and small. The Polar Duke, our ice-worthy Norwegian vessel, was immobilized - beset, to use the correct nautical term - by enormous sheets of sea ice. Once the ship was beset, they were soon to become close companions of the men trapped on the ice. Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany. Henri inherited a bitterly divided nation, ravaged by international and civil war, beset on all sides by the mighty Habsburg empire, and bankrupt. The ship was beset by pack ice and drifted south for 12 months, becoming the first exploring vessel to winter south of the Antarctic Circle. The ship was beset and drifted for months in bitter cold, heaved upon a mound of ice. In the middle of February the ship was beset and never got free again. The ship was beset for nine months during which time they disproved the existence of South Greenland which had been shown on maps since 1823. A sprinkling of volcanic rock in the Pacific, they are 600 miles east of their nearest land mass, and beset on all sides by seven mighty ocean currents. She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end. 2be beset witharchaic Be covered or studded with. 〈古〉被…覆盖，镶嵌着 blades of grass beset with glistening drops of dew Example sentencesExamples For millennia people have been adorning themselves with colorful accessories, made of precious metals, beset with jewels, and decorated with wonderful patterns. Only a costly silver ring beset with rubies that glittered on one finger denoted his status as being above that of ordinary men. On the upper part of the chariot lay an effigy, representing his person in royal robes, with an imperial crown of gold, beset with jewels of an inestimable value on its head, with a sceptre in the right hand, and a globe in the left. He wore a golden mitre beset with precious stones, and bore in his left hand a golden crosier, and in his right a pair of goldsmith's tongs. And when she opened it, she found garments beset with gold and with jewels, more splendid than those of any king's daughter. Origin Old English besettan, from be- ‘about’ + settan (see set).
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