beset
Significat
- To surround or hem in.
- To attack or assail, especially from all sides.
- To decorate something with jewels etc.
- Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/bɪˈsɛt/
Etimologia
From Middle English besetten, bisetten, from Old English besettan (“to beset; set beside; set near; appoint; place; own; possess”), from Proto-Germanic *bisatjaną (“to set near; set around”), equivalent to be- + set. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besätte (“to occupy”), West Frisian besette (“to occupy”), Dutch bezetten (“to sit in; occupy; fill”), German Low German besetten (“to occupy”), German besetzen (“to seize; occupy; garrison”), Danish besætte (“to occupy; obsess”), Swedish besätta (“to fill; occupy; beset”).
Millora la teva pronunciació
Comenceu a aprendre anglès amb learnfeliz .
Practica parlar i memoritzar " beset " i moltes altres paraules i frases a anglès .
Aneu a la nostra pàgina del curs anglès
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