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Obsessed

adjective

Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something. Synonyms: haunted, preoccupied, taken up. "Was absolutely obsessed with the girl" , "Got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children" , "He was taken up in worry for the old woman"

Influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion. Synonym: possessed.

Obsess

verb

Haunt like a ghost; pursue. Synonyms: ghost, haunt.

Be preoccupied with something.

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"Obsessed" Quotes from Famous Books

... feet became audible. He inclined his head to show that he had heard, but made no other reply. I think, even then, he was sore put to it to keep himself in hand. I knew what he was struggling against. As Dr. Silence had warned me, he was about to be obsessed, and was ...

— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... tied with the bondage of yearning to his distant son; his son appeared, lonely as well, the boy, greedily rushing along the burning course of his young wishes, each one heading for his goal, each one obsessed by the goal, each one suffering. The river sang with a voice of suffering, longingly it sang, longingly, it flowed towards its goal, ...

— Siddhartha • Herman Hesse

... frightened. Although the aeroplane carried the French insignia it might be an enemy machine. She, too, was obsessed with ...

— Ruth Fielding at the War Front - or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier • Alice B. Emerson

... terrible feeling of being at the beginning of something or at the end of something, with this voice in his ears of, "You have struck your tents and are upon the march"; and there was Otway, up at the barracks, miles away from realities, but as obsessed with his impossible stuff as he himself with these most real and pressing dismays. What would he, with his apprehension of what might lie ahead, be saying to a chap like Otway in two or three years and what would Otway with his obsessions ...

— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson

... little bit excited," he apologised. "Every so often he becomes obsessed with mad desire to impose upon some simple and credulous nature like mine. And failure always unbalances him. ...

— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance

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