bedevil / bɪˈdɛv əl /

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bedevil 的定义

v. 有主动词 verb

be·dev·iled, be·dev·il·ing or be·dev·illed, be·dev·il·ling.

  1. to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
  2. to possess, as with a devil; bewitch.
  3. to cause confusion or doubt in; muddle; confound: an issue bedeviled by prejudices.
  4. to beset or hamper continuously: a new building bedeviled by elevator failures.

bedevil 近义词

v. 动词 verb

plague

v. 动词 verb

confuse

更多bedevil例句

  1. For more than a century, explorers who ventured into the highest mountains had been bedevilled by cases of “high altitude pneumonia,” in which young, vigorous men were struck down, often fatally, within days of arriving at altitude.
  2. The sharper protests against “toxic philanthropy” that have bedeviled the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art aren’t discussed.
  3. A question that has long bedeviled bitcoin observers is how to value it.
  4. Matthew Yglesias on how President Obama can woo back liberals, bedevil the GOP—and change the outcome this fall.
  5. And the rifts produced by the idea-besotted '60s continue to bedevil us.
  6. What's become of that little boot-black that you used to bedevil?
  7. Of all the vegetables calculated to bedevil human beings, he decided, growing corn was the worst.
  8. This contract in a very few years arose to bedevil the railroad situation in the North Country.
  9. I've been listening to you trying to bedevil that man out there, but I'm afraid your humor is a little on the slap-stick order.
  10. These miserable slaves and reptiles—mongrel Spaniards and mongrel Indians—can not very long bedevil that great country.