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obsessed Definition


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obsess
verb obsesses, obsessed, obsessing
    1. To occupy someone's thoughts or mind completely, persistently or constantly; to preoccupy or haunt.
      Example: She is obsessed by football
      Thesaurus: consume, possess, grip, dominate, plague, engross, preoccupy, torment, haunt, nag.
    (chiefly N Amer)
    intr
    2. To think or worry constantly about something.
Etymology: 16c in sense 1: from Latin obsidere, obsessum to besiege, from ob- in front of + sedere to sit.



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