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 Translation for 'bedevil' from English to Spanish
VERB   to bedevil | bedevilled / bedeviled | bedevilled / bedeviled [Br.+Am. / Am. only]
bedevilling / bedeviling | bedevils
SYNO to bedevil | to befuddle | to confound | ...
atormentar a algnto bedevil sb.
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Translation for 'bedevil' from English to Spanish

to bedevil sb.
atormentar a algn
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Usage Examples English
  • In his attempt to flee from the advancing British, the arrogant Ducos is hauled from his horse by the routed French soldiers and is shot and left to die (but survives to bedevil Sharpe in the future).
  • Alec's AI, Captain Morgan, is also creating surprises to bedevil the Company in 2355. Alec drops these in strategic places at different times in history.
  • A total of three different doppelgängers are dispatched from the mysterious Black Lodge to bedevil the forces of good in Showtime's 2017 series "Twin Peaks: The Return".
  • Beginning as a child actor, Le Touzel's first television role was in the "Doctor Who" story "The Mind Robber", playing one of the children who bedevil the Second Doctor and his companions in the Land of Fiction.
  • Arquilla supports preemptive war and NSA wiretapping as antiterrorist methods: "the fact that preemption can only function on the basis of accurate insight should make the case for governments around the world to continue to amass and employ big data to search out the small cells that bedevil our era".

  • Ultimately Stryfe would be brought back to life as a time anomaly, having shown up out of the blue alongside the Dark Riders during a crossover between Cable and X-Man and would go on to bedevil the X-Men until his most death during the Gambit/Bishop mini-series.
  • It can now be seen to have anticipated the thrust of logical positivism, at least in arguing that misunderstandings of how language operates bedevil philosophical questions, and theories of modern linguistics.
  • Magnetic fluctuations bedevil plasma confinement in this type of device by scrambling what we hoped were well behaved magnetic fields.
  • Rain continued to bedevil the second round of the County Championship, with only Yorkshire and Durham securing wins.
  • The conference addressed many of the jurisdictional and administrative questions that still bedevil the idea.

  • A number of the problems that continue to bedevil cricket today had already surfaced by 1883: there were umpiring disputes, betting controversies, match-fixing, and even a riot.
  • Another feature of an argument based on false premises that can bedevil critics, is that its conclusion can in fact be true.
  • In the foreword to the special issue, Chapman was recalled as being "very relaxed" with a "healthy disrespect for minor rules and regulations that bedevil large institutions, and willing to turn a blind eye to student pranks".
  • However, warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition began to bedevil the Houthis as they moved their heavy armour and vehicles toward Aden, with airstrikes halting a convoy from Shuqrah early on 28 March.
  • A web site selling both puppies and dog clutches could avoid the search confusions and homonymy that bedevil the simple text-based search approaches.

  • Proving too much for his parents, Jakosic is often sent to his room, where he interacts with several bizarre "imaginary" playmates who bedevil the servants with their sadistic pranks (the audience is never certain whether the playmates are real or whether the boy is pulling off the pranks himself).
  • Like the Green Hornet, the Blue Beetle would use his signature scarab symbol to bedevil criminals, leaving it to be easily found, hanging it down into a room on a string and even projecting its enlarged image onto a wall with a flashlight.
  • His financial woes continue to bedevil him, leaving him unable to make a call from jail and finally unable to pay his bus fare home when released.
  • The Terrapins' two losses came against Penn and Penn State, the latter being the second game in a rivalry that would bedevil Maryland throughout its entire duration.
  • Demand recovery was suppressed by economic problems that may continue indefinitely to bedevil both the European Community and China.

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    Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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