beset

To beset is to harass or have trouble on an ongoing basis from multiple sources or from all sides.

(verb)

When you are continually plagued with problems and trouble from all sides, this is an example of a time when you are beset with problems.

See beset in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb beset, besetting

Origin: ME bisetten < OE besettan: see be- & set

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See beset in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb be·set, be·set·ting, be·sets

To attack from all sides.
To trouble persistently; harass. See Synonyms at attack.
To hem in; surround: “the mountains which beset it round” (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
To stud, as with jewels.

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Origin: Middle English bisetten

Origin: , from Old English besettan; see sed- in Indo-European roots

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