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besettingadjective caused by or suggestive of an irresistible urgethat woman's besetting need to meddle in the affairs of others compulsive, driven, impulsive, obsessional, obsessive irrepressible, uncontrollableautomatic, instinctive, involuntary, knee-jerk, reflex, spontaneousconditioned, mechanicalunconscious, unthinking, unwittingcapricious, unpredictable, whimsical unforced, voluntary, willful(or wilful)controllable, manageable, resistible to cause persistent suffering tohe's been beset by a lack of self-confidence virtually his entire life afflicting, agonizing, anguishing, bedeviling, besieging, cursing, excruciating, harrowing, persecuting, plaguing, racking, tormenting, torturing assailing, attackingbadgering, dogging, hounding, pursuing, ridingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, griping, hagriding, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, molesting, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, vexingdiscomforting, discomposing, disquieting, flustering, grieving, perturbing, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worryingcrushing, oppressing, overpowering, overwhelming, smiting, striking, tyrannizing, victimizinghurting, paining, panging, pricking, smarting, stabbing, stinging, wringingmartyring abetting, aiding, assisting, helpingdelivering, releasing, relieving, reprievingcomforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, solacing, soothing, succoring to take sudden, violent action againstthe unsuspecting tourists were suddenly beset by robbers assailing, assaulting, attacking, bushwhacking, charging, descending (on or upon), going in (on), jumping (on), pouncing (on or upon), raiding, rushing, setting on, siccing(also sicking), storming, striking, trashing, turning (on) bum-rushing, ganging up (on), mobbing, swarmingmugging, robbingambuscading, ambushing, surprising(also surprizing), waylayingblitzing, bombarding, bombing, nukingbarraging, cannonading, cannoningbanging away (at), battering, buffeting, plasteringbeleaguering, besieging, pressingharrying, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sackingforaying, invading, overrunningenveloping, flanking beating up on, flying at, going at, lighting into, pitching into, rounding on, setting at, setting upon, tearing into covering, defending, guarding, protecting, securing, shielding in 1634 |