bedevil

verb
/bɪˈdɛvəɫ/UK/bɪˈdɛvəl/US

Etymology

From be- + devil.

  1. derived from διάβολος
  2. derived from diabolus
  3. inherited from *diubul
  4. inherited from dēofol
  5. inherited from devil
  6. prefixed as bedevil — “be- + devil

Definitions

  1. 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
  2. To perplex or bewilder.

  3. To possess (someone's mind).

The neighborhood

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