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Bedevil   /bɪdˈɛvəl/   Listen
verb
Bedevil  v. t.  (past & past part. bedevilled; pres. part. bedeviling or bedevilling)  
1.
To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. "Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew."
2.
To spoil; to corrupt.





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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


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