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bedevilbe‧dev‧il /bɪˈdevəl/ verb (past tense and past participle bedevilled, present participle bedevilling British English, bedeviled, bedeviling American English) [transitive]  VERB TABLEbedevil |
Present | I, you, we, they | bedevil | | he, she, it | bedevils | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bedevilled (BrE), bedeviled (AmE) | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bedevilled (BrE), bedeviled (AmE) | | he, she, it | has bedevilled (BrE), bedeviled (AmE) | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bedevilled (BrE), bedeviled (AmE) | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will bedevil | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bedevilled (BrE), bedeviled (AmE) |
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Present | I | am bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | | he, she, it | is bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | | you, we, they | are bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | Past | I, he, she, it | was bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | | you, we, they | were bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | | he, she, it | has been bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been bedevilling (BrE), bedeviling (AmE) |
- The senator has been bedeviled by allegations of corruption.
- In particular, the relationship is becoming increasingly bedevilled by the issue of anti-missile defence.
- In the past, the discussion on the role of the state in public communication has been bedevilled by the East-West conflict.
- Instead, the new system was introduced on the pay-as-you-go basis which has bedevilled social security finance ever since.
- Off the field problems which have bedevilled the club in recent times have been buried.
- Systemic treatment of cancer is bedevilled by the similarity of tumour cells to normal cells, at least under most physiological conditions.
- The same problem bedevils the men.
- Uncertainty over objectives has bedevilled public libraries for many years.
- Unti1 1939 the Labour Party was bedevilled by internal dissensions on this issue.
to cause a lot of problems and difficulties for someone or something over a period of time SYN plague: a society bedevilled by racial tensionsGRAMMAR Bedevil is usually passive. |