beset

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɪˈsɛt/
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• General-American: /bəˈsɛt/
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• General-American: /bi-/
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• rhymes with -ɛt
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• CMU ARPABET: B IH0 S EH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”)

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: assetjar — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Chinese Mandarin: 圍攻 /围攻 (wéigōng) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Czech: napadnout — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Czech: zaútočit (ze všech stran) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Finnish: piirittää — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Finnish: käydä päälle joka suunnasta — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Italian: assediare — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Italian: assaltare — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Macedonian: о́псади (ópsadi) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Russian: осажда́ть (osaždátʹ) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Russian: осади́ть (osadítʹ) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Russian: тесни́ть (tesnítʹ) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Russian: потесни́ть pf or стесни́ть (potesnítʹ) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Spanish: asediar — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Spanish: sitiar — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Swedish: anfäkta — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Swedish: ansätta — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Ukrainian: обляга́ти (obljaháty) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Ukrainian: обсіда́ти (obsidáty) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Ukrainian: ото́чувати (otóčuvaty) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Ukrainian: оточи́ти (otočýty) — to assail or attack (someone) from all sides
• Chinese Mandarin: 封堵 (fēngdǔ) — to occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing
• Chinese Mandarin: 堵塞 — to occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing
• Czech: obsadit — to occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing
• Finnish: tukkia — to occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing
• Finnish: koristella — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Italian: incastonare — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Macedonian: у́краси (úkrasi) — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Russian: украша́ть (ukrašátʹ) — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Russian: укра́сить (ukrásitʹ) — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Ukrainian: оздо́блювати (ozdóbljuvaty) — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Ukrainian: оздобля́ти (ozdobljáty) — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Ukrainian: оздо́бити (ozdóbyty) — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Ukrainian: прикраша́ти (prykrašáty) — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Ukrainian: прикра́сити pf or прикраси́ти (prykrásyty) — to decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc. — see also decorate
• Arabic: اِكْتَنَفَ (iktanafa) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Bulgarian: обсаждам (obsaždam) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Bulgarian: обкръжавам (obkrǎžavam) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Czech: obklopit — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Czech: obklopovat — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Czech: obklíčit — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Estonian: ümber piirama — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Finnish: saartaa — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Finnish: piirittää — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Italian: circondare — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Latin: circumsedeo — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Macedonian: о́пколи (ópkoli) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Macedonian: о́пкружи (ópkruži) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Māori: karapoti — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Māori: popoke — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Māori: popoti — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Māori: pūrau — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Portuguese: cercar — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Romanian: împresura — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Russian: осажда́ть (osaždátʹ) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Russian: осади́ть (osadítʹ) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Russian: тесни́ть (tesnítʹ) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Russian: потесни́ть pf or стесни́ть (potesnítʹ) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Spanish: cercar — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Spanish: circuir — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Spanish: circundar — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Spanish: sitiar — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Ukrainian: ото́чувати (otóčuvaty) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Ukrainian: оточи́ти (otočýty) — to encircle or surround (someone or something)
• Finnish: juuttua jäihin — to trap (a ship) within frozen sea
• Italian: incagliare — to trap (a ship) within frozen sea
• Macedonian: за́мрзне (zámrzne) — to trap (a ship) within frozen sea
• Czech: trápit — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)
• Czech: sužovat — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)
• Czech: soužit — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)
• Czech: tísnit — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)
• Finnish: ahdistaa — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)
• Finnish: haitata — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)
• Finnish: painaa — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)
• Finnish: piirittää — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)
• Finnish: rasittaa — of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something)