Torments; harasses

Usage examples of bedevils.

While the bureaucracy boasts of "building Communism" the death-penalty had been reintroduced - for economic offences - such is the extent of swindling, corruption and theft which bedevils the Soviet economy - a concrete proof of the bankruptcy of the regime and the need for workers' democracy.

And we all know what this is, because it bedevils our own political situation, and our own effort to create a reasonable society.

Ever since, she has constantly invoked homey and folksy expressions, in an effort to paint herself as just another housewife, facing the same juggling act - husband, home, career, and children - that bedevils so many modern women.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

Winter came early that year, announced by endless fog, the curse that bedevils northern Arendia in the off season.