beset

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈsɛt/    美 /bəˈsɛt/|/bi-/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Senses relating to surrounding.; To assail or attack (someone) from all sides; to set about. transitive
    — He that hath read Seneca or Boethius, is well provided against any ordinary misfortune; and to have by heart the story of Argalus and Parthenia; the dolorous madrigals of old Plangus in the Arcadia; or the history of Pyramus and Thisbe, is a never failing remedy for the mubble-fubbles: For to be acquainted with sadness, besets familiarity, and familiars never kill one another, unless the devil is in them.
  2. Senses relating to surrounding.; To occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing. transitive
  3. Senses relating to surrounding.; To decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. transitive
  4. Senses relating to surrounding.; Followed by with: to encircle or surround (someone or something); to hem in. archaic,transitive
    — For thou, deere Lord, thou me besett'st; / Thy rodd and thy staff be / To comfort me: […]
  5. Senses relating to surrounding.; Followed by with: to encircle or surround (someone or something); to hem in.; To trap (a ship) within frozen sea; to ice in. archaic,transitive
  6. Senses relating to surrounding.; Of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something); to trouble. figuratively,transitive
    — Fred Brentnall, in his squeaky lorikeet voice reads to the House Lawson's last two stanzas, just to highlight the danger besetting the colony of Queensland, indeed, the whole country:[…]
  7. Senses relating to surrounding.; Of soldiers, etc.: to surround (a place) to compel surrender; to besiege. archaic,often,transitive
  8. Senses relating to surrounding.; To capture (an animal); to ensnare, to entrap. obsolete,transitive
  9. Senses relating to placing or setting.; To arrange or set (something) in order. obsolete,transitive
  10. Senses relating to placing or setting.; To give (something); to bestow, to present. obsolete,transitive
  11. Senses relating to placing or setting.; To spend or use (something, such as effort, money, time, or words). obsolete,transitive
  12. Senses relating to placing or setting.; Followed by on or upon: to place or set (love, trust, etc.) on someone. obsolete,transitive
  13. Senses relating to being appropriate.; To be appropriate or fitting for (something); to become, to befit. obsolete,transitive
  14. Senses relating to being appropriate.; Followed by with: to accord or go well with something. intransitive,obsolete

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
unbeset
衍生词
besetment besetter besetting besetting sin umbeset unbeset

词源

From Middle English besetten, bisetten (“to besiege, blockade; to fill, occupy; to harass, beset; to allot, bestow; to arrange, manage; to place, set; to provide for; to treat in a certain way”), from Old English besettan, bisettan (“to surround, beset; to set near; etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisattjan, from Proto-Germanic *bisatjaną (“to fill, occupy”), from *bi- (prefix meaning ‘at; by’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“at; near; on”)) + *satjaną (“to place down, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”)). By surface analysis, be- (prefix meaning ‘around; by, close to, near, next to’) + set.
cognates
* Danish besætte (“to occupy; obsess”)
* Dutch bezetten (“to sit in; occupy; fill”)
* German besetzen (“to seize; occupy; garrison”)
* German Low German besetten (“to occupy”)
* Saterland Frisian besätte (“to occupy”)
* Swedish besätta (“to fill; occupy; beset”)
* West Frisian besette (“to occupy”)
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