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BESET
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Traducere în limba română
beset past şi part. trec. beset verb tranzitiv
1. a pune, a aranja, a potrivi.
2. a înconjura, a împresura, a asedia; a asalta, a bloca, a ocupa.
3. (fig.) a asalta, a copleşi, a bombarda;
to beset with questions a asalta / a copleşi cu întrebări;
beset with cares copleşit de griji.
4. a bloca, a bara (drumul);
the undertaking is beset with danger este o întreprindere plină de primejdii;
the ship was beset vasul era prins de gheţuri.
5. (arhit.) a ornamenta.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I know all up to a certain point; and I see already, though your diary only took me to 7 September, how poor Lucy was beset, and how her terrible doom was being wrought out.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
But I thought—I implore you to remember the narrow construction which has been my besetting sin—that, in a case where there was so much disparity in point of years—
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Oh, how we are beset!
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)