Definitions for besets

besets be·set

Spelling: [bih-set]
IPA: /bɪˈsɛt/

Besets is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in besets (beesst).

Definitions for besets

verb (used with object)

  1. to attack on all sides; assail; harass:
  2. to surround; hem in:
  3. to set or place upon; bestud:
  4. Nautical. to surround (a vessel) by ice, so that control of the helm is lost.

Origin of besets

before 1000; Middle English besetten, Old English besettan. See be-, set

Examples for besets

He was beset on either side by the merciless fangs of his erstwhile comrades.

In her speech, Rice mentioned Iraq once, as a “fragile democracy” beset by “internal strife and hostile neighbors.”

Such was his own experience that he was beset by the gravest doubts.

Touring it through the Causses seemed, indeed, beset with difficulties.

They are putty in the hands of the fears and forces that beset them from without.

I suspect that the new Tarzan will run into the same problems that beset the recent Lone Ranger remake.

Stringer depicts a country that is beset by complications of both past imperialism and current globalism.

We may be beset by deep political divisions, but the moderate, outward-looking center is large; not a fringe section of society.

India, for example, is still very poor and beset by many ethnic and religious divides, yet has a thriving democracy.

I have been so hunted and beset by this man, that I knew my only hope of safety lay in joining them.

Word Value for besets
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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