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bedeviled

bedeviled is the simple past and past participle of bedevil.

Meaning of bedevil

Verb

bedevil (third-person singular simple present bedevils, present participle (US) bedeviling or (UK) bedevilling, simple past and past participle (US) bedeviled or (UK) bedevilled)

  1. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
    • Guerrilla attacks continued to bedevil the larger army's supply routes.
  2. To perplex or bewilder.
  3. (originally) To possess (someone's mind).
    Synonyms:
    bodyjack

Forms of bedeviled

alternative formbedevilled

Words formed from bedeviled

Questions about bedeviled

What is bedeviled the simple past and past participle of?
Bedeviled is the simple past and past participle of bedevil.

Words near bedeviled in the dictionary

  1. bedesten
  2. bedestens
  3. bedeswoman
  4. bedeswomen
  5. bedevil
  6. bedeviled
  7. bedeviler
  8. bedevilers
  9. bedeviling
  10. bedevilings
  11. bedevilled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedeviled (page history and authors); bedevil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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