British spelling of bedeviled; troubled by persistent problems or difficulties.
British variant spelling with double-l before the -ed ending, following British conventions for consonant doubling. Equivalent to American bedeviled.
The British double-l in bedevilled shows a spelling pattern difference—British English tends to double consonants before -ed more often than American English, a holdover from different historical conventions.
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