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The example sentences of BESETTING in videos (1 in total of 1)

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Use "besetting" in a sentence | "besetting" example sentences

How to use "besetting" in a sentence?

  • Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.
    -Jo Coudert-
  • Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
    -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-
  • Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
    -Samuel Butler-
  • ...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
    -Jack London-
  • For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
    -Aldous Huxley-
  • But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
    -Joseph Barber Lightfoot-
  • It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
    -James F. Cooper-
  • Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
    -John Owen-
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Definition and meaning of BESETTING

What does "besetting mean?"

/bəˈset/

besetting

verb
trouble someone or something persistently.

What are synonyms of "besetting"?
Some common synonyms of "besetting" are:
  • plague,
  • bedevil,
  • attack,
  • assail,
  • beleaguer,
  • afflict,
  • torment,
  • torture,
  • rack,
  • oppress,
  • trouble,
  • worry,
  • bother,
  • harass,
  • hound,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.

/plāɡ/

plague
noun verb

contagious bacterial disease. cause continual trouble to.

/bəˈdevəl/

bedevil
verb

cause great and continual trouble to.

/əˈtak/

attack
noun verb

aggressive or violent act. To try to destroy, beat, or injure.

/əˈsāl/

assail
verb

make concerted or violent attack on.

/bəˈlēɡər/

beleaguer
verb

cause problems or difficulties for.

/əˈflikt/

afflict
verb

To hurt someone or something; to cause pain.

torment
noun verb

severe physical or mental suffering. cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering.

/ˈtôrCHər/

torture
noun verb

action or practice of inflicting severe pain or suffering on someone. To painfully hurt someone to get information.

/rak/

rack
noun verb

framework for holding or storing things. To cause someone pain or suffering.

/əˈpres/

oppress
verb

To rule in a cruel way.

/ˈtrəb(ə)l/

trouble
noun verb

Lack of public order; disturbance. To do difficult or bad things which cause problems.

/ˈwərē/

worry
noun verb

state of being anxious and troubled. feel or cause to feel anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.

/ˈbäT͟Hər/

bother
noun verb

A disturbance; trouble. take trouble to do something.

/həˈras/

harass
verb

To bother repeatedly with harmful words or actions.

/hound/

hound
noun verb

Dog. harass, persecute, or pursue relentlessly.

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