Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bedevil

Bedevil ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

1.
To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. — Sterne
2.
To spoil; to corrupt. — Wright