beset

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To surround or hem in.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To attack, especially from all sides.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
  4. Verb.  (nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.