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発音

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈsɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

動詞

beset (三人称単数 現在形 besets, 現在分詞 besetting, 過去形および過去分詞形 beset)

1. (transitive) To surround or hem in.
   • 1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision, page 80:

     Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]

2. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     “Nay, for matter o’ that, he never doth any mischief,” said the woman; “but to be sure it is necessary he should keep some arms for his own safety; for his house hath been beset more than once; and it is not many nights ago that we thought we heard thieves about it […]

   • 2021 July 28, Paul Clifton, “£67 million Isle of Wight line extension submitted to DfT”, in RAIL, number 936, page 21:

     Track and platforms have been upgraded, but refurbished trains from Vivarail have been beset by software problems.

3. (transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
4. (nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

派生語

• besetting

参照

• “beset”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• Beets, Beste, beest, beets, tsebe