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 "surround "
Examples for "surround "
1 Army surround complex: Security forces and the Algerian army surround the hostage-takers.
2 Six ships surround us, all heading on different routes for different things.
3 Perhaps the most compelling questions of all, however, surround the attackers themselves.
4 Doubts surround the future of some shearing sport competitions in New Zealand.
5 Bank equities remain under pressure, however, with particular tensions surrounding Italian banks.
1 As a result, they increasingly circumvent global institutions by creating bilateral arrangements.
2 Reproductive technologies are often described as means to circumvent the body's biology.
3 He was very proud of his ability to circumvent a new law.
4 OUTA are furious that Christians helped the Gupta family circumvent immigration laws.
5 It might even encourage the use of methods to circumvent such rules.
1 Lesbos revolts from the Athenian confederacy; on this the Athenians besiege Mitylene.
2 But the children continued to besiege the farmer, all talking at once.
3 But what happens if Cassandra prophesies and the Greeks don't besiege Troy?
4 We saw people besieged and asking for help, Mr Rodrigues told reporters.
5 The statement said the U.N. should amend the classification of besieged areas.
1 They, however, continued to beleaguer the place, occasionally showing in great masses.
2 We pity the gringos if they should attempt to beleaguer this impregnable fortress.
3 It also agreed to increase government borrowing to support the beleaguered economy.
4 At home, however, attention will centre on the beleaguered Anglo Irish Bank.
5 Beleaguered state police will still be the main agency battling the rebels.
1 The officers close in, trying to hem in Herrera between the two vehicles.
2 The narrow limits of personal gain and personal inheritance rigidly hem in sub-human progress.
3 Though scientific facts do not by themselves dictate values, they hem in the possibilities.
4 Does she feel a hem in air, or only coldness?
5 The rising value of the dollar will also hem in any potential gains, he said.
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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