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What does beset mean?

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  1. (transitive) To surround or hem in.
  2. (transitive) To attack, especially from all sides.
  3. (transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
  4. (nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.
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Many analysts say the reform package is essential to reinvigorating Germany's flagging economy, beset by slow growth and high unemployment.
In a sport beset by serious doping problems, he was always regarded as a torch-bearer.
Real were elegant but there was an air of self-congratulation and the slackness that has beset them this season had not been purged entirely.
He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
I saw her, beset by snarling jackals of humanity, sniffing and yelping their cruel cries.
To find out the how and why we have to go further back, to the 1880s, when London's and Europe's intellectuals were beset with doubt and anomie.

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