beset🔊

To surround or hem in.

📑 Synonyms: bebay beleaguer besiege encircle environ inbind

(sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.

📑 Synonyms: beleaguer besiege environ harry pursue

💬 Quotations

“Nay, for matter o’ that, he never doth any mischief,” said the woman; “but to be sure it is necessary he should keep some arms for his own safety; for his house hath been beset more than once; and it is not many nights ago that we thought we heard thieves about it […]

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)

To decorate something with jewels etc.

📑 Synonyms: bedazzle bejewel bespangle

(nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

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