transcription, транскрипция: [ bɪdev(ə)l ]
( bedevils, bedevilling, bedevilled)
Note: in AM, use 'bedeviling', 'bedeviled'
If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time. ( FORMAL )
His career was bedevilled by injury.
...a problem that has bedevilled service industries for decades.
= beset
VERB : be V-ed , V n