bedevil
verb/bɪˈdɛvəɫ/UK/bɪˈdɛvəl/US
Etymology
Definitions
To harass or cause trouble for
To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
- Guerrilla attacks continued to bedevil the larger army's supply routes.
- Mr. Levi may have been bedeviled by buried conflicts unrelated to Auschwitz.
- Such amity is no small thing. The narrowing world of Yiddish theater has been bedeviled with one “broyges — a cherished term for a falling out — after another
To perplex or bewilder.
To possess (someone's mind).
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bedevil. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA