Usually means: Surrounded and troubled persistently, aggressively.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word besetment:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. besetment: Merriam-Webster
  2. besetment: Collins English Dictionary
  3. besetment: Wordnik
  4. besetment: Wiktionary
  5. Besetment, besetment: Dictionary.com
  6. Besetment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. besetment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Besetment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. besetment: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Besetment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besetment: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The state of being beset.

Similar:
besiegement, embattlement, besieging, bego, beleaguerment, investment, enmeshment, bedizenment, embranglement, encomberment, more...

Opposite:
freedom, liberation, release, relief

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Similar:
besiegement, embattlement, besieging, bego, beleaguerment, investment, enmeshment, bedizenment, embranglement, encomberment, more...

Opposite:
freedom, liberation, release, relief



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