Antonyms for beset


Grammar : Verb
Spell : bih-set
Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈsɛt


Definition of beset

Origin :
  • Old English besettan "to put, place; own, keep; occupy, settle; cover, surround with, besiege," from Proto-Germanic *bisatjan (cf. Old Saxon bisettjan, Dutch bezetten, Old High German bisezzan, German besetzen, Gothic bisatjan); see be- + set (v.). The figurative sense also was in Old English. Related: Beset (past tense); besetting.
  • verb plague; hem in
Example sentences :
  • They are putty in the hands of the fears and forces that beset them from without.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • Touring it through the Causses seemed, indeed, beset with difficulties.
  • Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • He was beset on either side by the merciless fangs of his erstwhile comrades.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • Such was his own experience that he was beset by the gravest doubts.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • I have been so hunted and beset by this man, that I knew my only hope of safety lay in joining them.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • He felt as if the Sicilian were beset by an imperious need to break a long reserve.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • Possibly the suspicion, the fear that beset him was groundless.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • She could not put into words the memories that beset her stricken consciousness.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • All summer long that man has beset me to go to 'em, for he wouldn't go without me.
  • Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various
  • But in truth he is trying to get rid of the stumbling-blocks of thought which beset his contemporaries.
  • Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato

Synonyms for beset

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