bedevilment
- noun
- /bɪˈdɛvəlmənt/
:
hostigamiento
- The ongoing bedevilment of the team by injuries made it hard for them to win games.
Examples
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His life was filled with the bedevilment of endless late-night phone calls from telemarketers.
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For Farrakhan's followers, Jewish bedevilment of black life is simply historical and "factual."
Academic text (2000) -
With the whole sequence of bedevilment images in view, it should not seem remarkable that the demons' airy medium, their work of picturing, and their ability to possess people could eventually encourage a writer like Descartes to compare demonic possession with dreaming.
Academic text (2002) -
She experienced constant bedevilment from her noisy neighbors at all hours.
Synonyms
596
4.6
Repeatedly annoying or frightening someone to upset them
70
5.6
Great physical or mental pain someone feels
3
7.5
Repeated annoying demands or questions from someone
Upsetting or bothering someone again and again
How Troubling
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70
5.6
97
6.5
596
4.6
62
3.6
27
3.6
26
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bedevilment is built from be-, a small part that can mean 'to make' or 'thoroughly', plus the familiar devil, which means 'an evil spirit', and the ending -ment that makes a noun. So it originally meant 'made like the devil', or 'badly troubled', and that's why today it means 'persistent harassment or torment'.