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bedevil

 verb
     
be‧dev‧il past tense and past participle bedevilled, present participle bedevilling British English, past tense and past participle bedeviled, present participle bedeviling American English [transitive usually passive]
to cause a lot of problems and difficulties for someone or something over a period of time [= plague]:
a society bedevilled by racial tensions
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