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What does beset mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word beset? Here's what it means.

Verb
  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.
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Tuesday Scotland's farmers march on Holyrood to protest against the blows which have beset their profession.
A wedding that was widely billed as beset by disasters and disapproval became a day of warm smiles, laughter and even the odd decent joke.
Giocoli claims that Nash's interpretation of game theory was beset by other difficulties retarding its acceptance by mainstream economics.
He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
Real were elegant but there was an air of self-congratulation and the slackness that has beset them this season had not been purged entirely.
I saw her, beset by snarling jackals of humanity, sniffing and yelping their cruel cries.

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