bedevil

verb

1. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.

   “Guerrilla attacks continued to bedevil the larger army's supply routes.”

   “Mr. Levi may have been bedeviled by buried conflicts unrelated to Auschwitz.”

   “Such amity is no small thing. The narrowing world of Yiddish theater has been bedeviled with one “broyges — a cherished term for a falling out — after another”

   “Michael De Santa (Ned Luke): You know, Devin [Devin Winston], the way I see it, and hey, I'm no intelligent businessman like you, but the way I see it, there's two great evils that bedevil American capitalism of the type that you practice.”

2. To perplex or bewilder.
3. To possess (someone's mind).