Usually means: Torment someone with severe difficulties.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bedevil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bedevil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bedevil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bedevil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bedevil: Vocabulary.com
  6. bedevil: Wordnik
  7. bedevil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bedevil: Wiktionary
  9. bedevil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bedevil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bedevil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bedevil, bedevil: Dictionary.com
  13. bedevil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bedevil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bedevil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bedevil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bedevil: Rhymezone
  18. Bedevil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bedevil: Free Dictionary
  20. bedevil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bedevil: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bedevil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bedevil: Encyclopedia

(Note: See bedeviled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
verb:  To perplex or bewilder.
verb:  (originally) To possess (someone's mind).

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