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What is the verb for devil?

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devil
  1. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
  2. To annoy or bother; to bedevil.
  3. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
  4. To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
  5. To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
  6. To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “How you devil me with your unkindness! Go away!”
bedevil
  1. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
  2. To perplex or bewilder.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Unnecessary disturbing thoughts started to bedevil me and I buried my face in my arms.”
      “These new rules often seem to bedevil and annoy those who are used to the status quo.”
      “We take a hard look at two deep social problems which bedevil the Order at the dawn of the twenty-first century.”
deviled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of devil
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devilled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of devil
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devilling
devilize
  1. (transitive) To represent as a devil.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him.”
devilizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devilize
bedevils
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The desire to be taken seriously bedevils many funny people, and therein lies the rub.”
      “As often bedevils the translator's task there appears to be at least one lacuna in the extant text, but it was relatively painless to decipher.”
      “It is time to put a stop to the crisis management that bedevils our health system.”
devilized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of devilize
bedeviled
  1. (US) simple past tense and past participle of bedevil
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This is the Buenos Aires I have fallen in love with, full of inconsistencies, bedeviled by its tragic circumstances.”
      “Far too much contemporary film criticism, whether journalistic or academic, is bedeviled by equally odorous orthodoxies.”
      “The debate over how to deal with illegal immigrants has bedeviled the country for years.”
bedevilled
  1. (Britain) simple past tense and past participle of bedevil
  2. Examples:
    1. “When not bedevilled by his personal demons his mind is razor-sharp and positive and he uses his cue as if it was a magician's wand.”
      “With its over-educated, overworked, underpaid legions, publishing is an industry bedevilled by pessimism.”
      “No such illusion bedevilled the artifice of the opera, the equivalent art form of the late seventeenth century.”
devilizing
  1. present participle of devilize
bedeviling
  1. (US) present participle of bedevil
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.”
      “More is needed to prevent a bigger intergenerational transfer burden from bedeviling our political future.”
      “Treating the Universe as a hologram might solve one of the biggest problems bedeviling modern physics.”
bedevilling
  1. (Britain) present participle of bedevil
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Jerry sprays her horse to protect it from the African horse sickness bedevilling the province.”
      “But reserve replacement is a problem bedevilling all the majors, even those yet to say so publicly.”
      “That is the kind of bedevilling question that this piece of legislation will attempt to address.”
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