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bedevilled

bedevilled 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 bedevilled

alternative formbedeviled

Words formed from bedevilled

Questions about bedevilled

What is bedevilled the simple past and past participle of?
Bedevilled is the simple past and past participle of bedevil.

Words near bedevilled in the dictionary

  1. bedeviled
  2. bedeviler
  3. bedevilers
  4. bedeviling
  5. bedevilings
  6. bedevilled
  7. bedeviller
  8. bedevillers
  9. bedevilling
  10. bedevillings
  11. bedevilment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedevilled (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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