Beset vs Onerous - What's the difference?
beset | onerous |
(label) To surround or hem in
(label) To attack, especially from all sides
(label) To decorate something with jewels etc
(label) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice
imposing]] or [[constitute, constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.
* 1820 , , "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow":
* 1848 , , Shirley , ch. 13:
* 1910 , , "The Golden Poppy" in Revolution and Other Essays :
As a verb beset
is (label) to surround or hem in.As an adjective onerous is
imposing]] or [[constitute|constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort.beset
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(en adjective)- That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable.
- Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation,—no matter how onerous , how irksome.
- [I]t has become an onerous duty, a wearisome and distasteful task.