Annoy continually or chronically.
Assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards"
Decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender.
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Examples for "encrust "
Examples for "encrust "
1 Is it true that jewels encrust the walls of the palace?
2 Just grab a cheap gadget and encrust it in Swarovski crystals.
3 Encrusted carbon that was once good food is caked on the oven.
4 The pearl - encrusted dress was stolen from her hotel room earlier this week.
5 He saw her by a dim light cast from a salt - encrusted window.
1 Most waters contain some impurity which, when the water is evaporated, remains to incrust the surface of the vessel.
2 Such are popularly known as petrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone.
3 In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur.
4 They raise the coverlet and disclose a box incrusted with little pebbles.
5 The Roosevelt walls are incrusted with paintings and prints of ships.
1 News reports detail a recovery beset by delays, bureaucracy, and political friction.
2 Italy is beset by growing joblessness as the economic crisis bites hard.
3 Iran's centrifuge-based enrichment programme is rather primitive and beset by technical problems.
4 The Kennedy family, an American political dynasty, has been beset by tragedy.
5 It is beset with problems of diagnosis and difficulties in assessing treatment.
6 It provides evidence of yet another banking culture beset by corrupt behaviour.
7 One by one, the problems that have long beset humanity are toppling.
8 A calm island in a sea of troubles for any beset Taoiseach.
9 To use this power to heal the sicknesses that beset my people.
10 Again, a Moslem host landed in Malta and beset the Cite Notable.
11 It is not my way to beset my enemies in the dark.
12 The Pacific was increasingly empowered but beset with dilemmas, Mr Tuilaepa said.
13 Such are the distressing problems that beset generals and others in authority.
14 Carriages, with servants in snobby coats, beset the doors of the theatre.
15 You are now in the wilderness beset on every side by enemies.
16 You have no idea of the temptations that constantly beset him there.
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