Bedevil

Definitions: Bedevil

Bedevil

Verb

1. Annoy constantly.

2. Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly: "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Bedevil

Arrangement

Turn topsy-turvy; (invert); bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle; rumple; (fold).

Sorcery

Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.

Crosswords: Bedevil

A woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Bedevil (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

bie në qafë (bait, get on smb.'s nerves, harass), ngatërroj (bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up), ngacmoj (annoy, badger, banter, bother, chaff, chip, dare, excite, guy, harass, Harrow, Harry, irritate, jolly, molest, monkey, nag, nettle, provoke, rag, rally, ruffle, tamper, tease), ndërlikoj (complicate, perplex, sophisticate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سحر (attractiveness, bewitch, bewitchment, catch, charm, conjure, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, magnetize, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, overlook, pleasantness, prestige, quaintness, ravishment, relish, smite, sorcery, spell, spellbind, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest), ‏عذب (agonize, agreeable, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), ‏شوش (befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тормозя (badger, bait, bully, chivy, excruciate, fret, harass, hunt down, jade, murder, persecute, pester, pick on, plague, play up, prey, push, put upon, rack, rag, ride, scourge, worry), омагьосвам (bewitch, charm, enchant, glamor, glamour, hoodoo, spellbind, voodoo, witch), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), мъча (agonize, excruciate, gnaw, martyrize, prick, rankle, torment, torture, victimize, wring). (various references)

Chinese 

混淆 (Addle, Addled, Addling, Bedevilled, Bedevilling, Confuse, Confusing). (various references)

Farsi 

مسحورکردن (Bewitch, Charm, Ravish), سحروجادوکردن (Hex), اذیت کردن (Annoy, Badger, Grieve, Grind, Harass, Hock, Hurt, Indemnify, Needle, Offend, Pester, Tease, Worry), دارای روح شیطانی کردن . (various references)

French

tourmenter, harceler, faire brouiller, embrouiller (befog). (various references)

German

komplizieren (complicate, perplex, puzzle), erschweren (aggravate, hamper, hedge about, hedge around, hedge in, hedge round, hinder, impede, make more difficult, thwart, to aggravate). (various references)

Greek 

γοητεύω (beguile, bewitch, charm, enchant, enrapture, enthral, fascinate, hex, mesmerize, ravish, spell, witch), βασανίζω (afflict, agonize, bait, excruciate, flay, harass, obsess, pester, plague, prey on, rack, scourge, torment, torture, worry), προκαλώ σύγχιση, περιπλέκω (bewilder, complicate, embroil, enmesh, entangle, mystify, perplex, pleach, puzzle, twist, web), ενοχλώ (act up, ail, annoy, badger, bother, derange, discommode, disturb, fret, get someone's back up, grate on, harass, heckle, incommode, inconvenience, infest, irk, irritate, jar on, pester, pother, trouble). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתסכל (frustrate), לבלבל (confound, confuse, disarrange, disconcert, disturb, flummox, mix up, muddle, perturb). (various references)

Hungarian

megbabonáz (bewitch, enchant, to bewitch, to charm, to enchant, to hex, to mesmerize), kínoz (afflict, agonize, excruciate, rack, tease, to afflict, to agonize, to bully, to crucify, to discommode, to hag, to harry, to lacerate, to obsess, to pain, to rack, to torment, to torture, torment, torture, wring), incselkedik (to chaff, to josh). (various references)

Italian

tormentare (afflict, agonise, agonize, bait, be tormented, excruciate, harass, Harry, labour, nag, pester, pinch, plague, prey, sting, tantalise, tantalize, torment, worry). (various references)

Pig Latin

edevilbay

Portuguese

acossar (corner, harass, persecute, pert, prosecute, pursue). (various references)

Romanian

brutaliza (brutalize, bully, mishandle, misuse), vrãji (allure, bewitch, cast a glamour over, cast a spell upon, charm, enchant, enrapture, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, lure, spell, spellbind), trimite la naiba, tortura (excruciate, gnaw, grill, Harrow, lacerate, rack, tantalize, torture, wring), strica (bastardize, batter, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), maltrata (abuse, ill treat, ill use, knock about, maltreat, maul, mishandle, mistreat, misuse), fermeca (allure, bewitch, captivate, carry, cast a spell upon, charm, conjure, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fascinate, fetch, lure, smite, spell, spellbind, take), da peste cap (disarrange, dish, overturn, rummage, scamp, snooker, turn smth. inside out). (various references)

Russian 

мучить (agonize, crucify, curse, drag, excruciate, fret, gnaw, grill, kill by inches, lacerate, martyrize, press upon, rack, rankle, tantalize, trouble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nasekirati (irk, upset, vex, worry), namučiti (suffer, torment). (various references)

Spanish

endemoniar. (various references)

Swedish

plåga (afflict, aggrieve, agonize, agony, ail, bother, crucify, curse, distress, excruciate, excruciation, fret, gall, harass, Harrow, Harry, infliction, jar, pain, pang, persecute, pester, pinch, plague, rack, ride, scourge, tear, terror, torment, torture, worry, wring). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เป็นปัญหามากและยาวนาน. (various references)

Turkish

bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), kafasını karıştırmak (befog, bemuse, confound, confuse, derange, disorient, mix up, obfuscate, perturb, puzzle), delirtmek (craze, distract, drive mad, drive smb. nuts, madden), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow), altüst etmek (agitate, clutter, clutter up, depolarise, disappoint, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overset, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, screw up, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upset, upturn, work havoc), çileden çıkartmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

терзати (excruciate, lacerate, prey, rankle, worry), наврочити (overlook, witch), мучити (agonize, bully, chivvy, crucify, devour, drag, excruciate, martyrize, pain, pinch, plague, torment, torture, tribulate, trouble, victimize, whip), заворожити, псувати (alloy, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), перекручувати (contort, deform, disguise, distort, garble, kink, misconstrue, mutilate, pervert, sophisticate, torture, travesty, warp, wrest, wring), плутати (addle, ball, muddle, perplex, snarl, wander). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bedevil": bedeviled, bedeviling, bedevilled, bedevilling, bedevilment, bedevilments, bedevils. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bedevil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baddeil, Beevi, Boerevolk, Bolevill, Bondevik, Bredevej, Breteuil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: belied, belive, edible, levied, veiled.

-2 letters: bedel, belie, bevel, bield, bleed, delve, devel, devil, edile, elide, lieve, lived.

-3 letters: bide, bile, bled, deil, dele, deli, diel, dive, eide, evil, idle, lied, live, veil, veld, vibe, vide, vied, vile.

-4 letters: bed, bee, bel, bid, deb, dee, del, dev, dib, die, eel, eld, eve, led, lee, lei, lev, lib, lid, lie, vee, vie.

-5 letters: be, bi, de, ed, el, id, li.

+1 letter: bedevils, bedrivel, believed, evadible, vendible.

+2 letters: bedeviled, bedrivels, derivable, devisable, driveable, vendibles.

+3 letters: bedeviling, bedevilled, bedriveled, deceivable, disbelieve, overbilled, overboiled, verbalized, vestibuled.

+4 letters: bedevilling, bedevilment, bedriveling, bedrivelled, bolshevized, deliverable, disbelieved, disbeliever, disbelieves, misbelieved.

+5 letters: bedevilments, bedrivelling, boulevardier, deliberative, disbelievers, disbelieving, discoverable, unverbalized, voidableness.

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