Usually means: Persistently troubling or attacking someone.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word besetting:

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  1. besetting: Merriam-Webster
  2. besetting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. besetting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. besetting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. besetting: Vocabulary.com
  6. besetting: Wordnik
  7. besetting: Wiktionary
  8. besetting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. besetting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. besetting: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Besetting, besetting: Dictionary.com
  12. Besetting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. besetting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Besetting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. besetting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. besetting: FreeDictionary.org
  17. besetting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (besetting)

▸ noun:  The act of one who besets or attacks.
▸ adjective:  Deeply rooted; persistent.
▸ adjective:  Obsessive

Similar:
besieging, besiegement, investment, embattlement, beleaguerment, bego, abordage, ingression, catch, bedizenment, more...

Opposite:
untroubled, unbothered, unburdened

Phrases:
besetting sins, besetting sin, more...

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Similar:
besieging, besiegement, investment, embattlement, beleaguerment, bego, abordage, ingression, catch, bedizenment, more...

Opposite:
untroubled, unbothered, unburdened

Phrases:
besetting sins, besetting sin, more...



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