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Bedevil   /bɪdˈɛvəl/   Listen
Bedevil

verb
(past & past part. bedevilled; pres. part. bedeviling or bedevilling)
1.
Treat cruelly.  Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment.
2.
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.  Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw.  "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"



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"Bedevil" Quotes from Famous Books



... right in the middle of such important and crucial problems as foreign policy, atomic disarmament, racketeering, integration and a dozen and one other problems, NICAP began to bedevil every senator and representative who was polite ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder &c 59; muss [U.S.]; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon. unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear. turn topsy-turvy &c (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle^, embrangle^, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle^, dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c (fold) 258. litter, scatter; mix &c 41. rearrange &c 148. Adj. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... Sprigg, whose case we are putting through in a somewhat novel fashion, why, these pranks you are playing might not be deemed unseasonable, might even be approved; but you forget the nature of Manitou duty and go beyond the bounds of Manitou privilege, when you turn aside to bedevil a thoroughly honest human thing like Ben. To be sure, as I have just hinted, Ben is not a brilliant youth, nor shall ever be one, even though he should live to see his second childhood, and from that stage of mortal existence take ...
— The Red Moccasins - A Story • Morrison Heady



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