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besetment (noun)

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  • besetment — noun The state of being beset. A common threat to icebreakers is besetment, where they are trapped in the ice and unable to ram the ice to escape …   Wiktionary

  • besetment — noun see beset …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • besetment — tmənt noun ( s) 1. : the action of besetting or the condition of being beset would invite besetment in the frozen sea Glen Jacobsen 2. : something by which one is beset : trouble, vexation …   Useful english dictionary

  • besetment — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Something that annoys x aggravation, annoyance, bother, irritant, irritation, nuisance, peeve, plague, torment, vexation. See FEELINGS, PAIN …   English dictionary for students

  • beset — transitive verb ( set; setting) Etymology: Middle English besetten, from Old English besettan, from be + settan to set Date: before 12th century 1. to set or stud with or as if with ornaments 2. trouble, harass < inflation besets …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • beset — /bəˈsɛt / (say buh set), /bi / (say bee ) verb (t) (beset, besetting) 1. to attack on all sides; assail: the Greeks beset the city of Troy. 2. to repeatedly cause difficulty or danger to; harass: the problems that beset the community. –adjective… …  

  • -MENT — suffix. 1 forming nouns expressing the means or result of the action of a verb (abridgement; embankment). 2 forming nouns from adjectives (merriment; oddment). Etymology: from or after F f. L mentum * * * I. mənt sometimes ˌment noun suffix …   Useful english dictionary

  • bother — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. nuisance, annoyance; trouble; perplexity, worry. v. t. irritate, pester, worry. See pain, adversity, discontent. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Trouble or worry] Syn. vexation, fuss, inconvenience, anxiety;… …   English dictionary for students

  • nuisance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pest, annoyance, irritation, bore, bother. See evil. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A bother] Syn. annoyance, vexation, bore; see trouble 2 . 2. [An offense against the public] Syn. breach, infraction,… …   English dictionary for students

  • plague — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. affliction, woe, visitation; nuisance, pest; bane, scourge, curse; pestilence, disease, epidemic; bubonic plague, white or black death; cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox, typhoid, [Asian, etc. ] flu. v …   English dictionary for students

  • torment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. languish, distress; torture, agony, pain v. t. torture, distress, agonize, rack, afflict. See discontent, punishment. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. agony, suffering, misery; see pain 1 , 2 , torture . v.… …   English dictionary for students

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