beset

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to beset

Third person singular
besets

Simple past
beset

Past participle
beset

Present participle
besetting

to beset (third-person singular simple present besets, present participle besetting, simple past and past participle beset)

  1. (transitive) To surround or hem in.
  2. (transitive) To attack, especially from all sides.
  3. (transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
  4. (nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

[edit] Translations

to surround or hem in
get trapped by ice
to surround

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