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Webster 1913 Edition
Bedevil
Be-dev′il
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bedevilled
([GREEK]); p. pr. & vb. n.
Bedeviling
or Bedevilling
.] 1.
To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
Bedeviled
and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.
2.
To spoil; to corrupt.
Wright.