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Beset

/bɪˈsɛt/
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(verb) Senses relating to surrounding.

The problem was beset with difficulties.
Young people fled cities beset by terrorism, the economic crisis and drugs.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The project was ____ by many technical problems from the very start.

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