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besetments

besetments is the plural of besetment.

Meaning of besetment

Noun

besetment (countable and uncountable, plural besetments)

  1. The state of being beset.
    • A common threat to icebreakers is besetment, where they are trapped in the ice and unable to ram the ice to escape.

Questions about besetments

What is besetments the plural of?
Besetments is the plural of besetment.

Words near besetments in the dictionary

  1. beserks
  2. Beserra
  3. Beserras
  4. beset
  5. besetment
  6. besetments
  7. besets
  8. besetten
  9. besetter
  10. besetters
  11. besettest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: besetments (page history and authors); besetment (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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