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What (who) is BEDEVIL - definition
bedevil
1993 FILM BY TRACEY MOFFATT
Bedevil: Original Soundtrack Recording; BEDEVIL: Original Soundtrack Recording
(bedevils, bedevilling, bedevilled)
Note: in AM, use 'bedeviling', 'bedeviled'
If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time. (FORMAL)
His career was bedevilled by injury.
...a problem that has bedevilled service industries for decades.
= beset
VERB: be V-ed, V n
bedevil
1993 FILM BY TRACEY MOFFATT
Bedevil: Original Soundtrack Recording; BEDEVIL: Original Soundtrack Recording
¦ verb (bedevils, bedevilling, bedevilled; US bedevils, bedeviling, bedeviled) cause continual trouble to.
Derivatives
bedevilment noun
Examples of use of BEDEVIL
1. But changing climate conditions bedevil the sport.
2. The failure to capture him continues to bedevil the Bush team and its supporters.
3. The civil wars that bedevil the region are also a danger.
4. In a word, the new Japanese government has taken only actions to bedevil the DPRK–Japan relations since its emergence.
5. The Lee group‘s persistent insistence on the treacherous "pragmatism" would not only bedevil the inter–Korean relations but escalate confrontation.