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UK
/bɪdˈɛvəl/
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[ US /bɪˈdɛvəɫ/ ]
[ US /bɪˈdɛvəɫ/ ]
VERB
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be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
These questions confuse even the experts
This question befuddled even the teacher
This question completely threw me -
treat cruelly
The children tormented the stuttering teacher
How To Use bedevil In A Sentence
- The Western Cape's pursuit of an inclusive South African identity is bedevilled by ... the persistence of white privilege rooted in historical baaskap and black exclusion," the document said. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Gone are the spelling rules that bedeviled many students' days.
- It is a subject that knows no bounds or time limits, and the demands of the role continue to bedevil women who assume it. Cherie Burns: Stepmotherhood Never Ends
- bedevil" government's privatisation plans, industrial relations and human resources company NMG-Levy said on Wednesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
- But what plagues American still bedevils the rest of the airline industry, which has racked up $55 billion in losses in the past decade. Airlines Are Driven to Nickel and Dime
- Their misdeeds, if that's what they really were, haunted some to their graves and continue to bedevil the still living who are never allowed to forget them.
- The senator has been bedeviled by allegations of corruption.
- Partly this is down to that old bedevilling British thing, class: Mr. Cameron is from very well-bred stock, and so are almost all of his lieutenants. The Election of Gordon W. Bush
- South Africa was still "bedeviled" by racism and Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale's family's experiences in a Rouxville, Free ANC Daily News Briefing
- But the voices continued to bedevil her, and later that year she was committed to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.