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Obsessed   /əbsˈɛst/   Listen
verb
obsess  v. t.  
1.
To besiege; to beset. (archaic)
2.
To excessively preoccupy the thoughts or feelings of; to haunt the mind persistently.



obsess  v. i.  To be excessively or persistently preoccupied with something; usually used with on or over; as, to obsess over an imagined insult. "At all ages children are driven to figure out what it takes to succeed among their peers and to give these strategies precedence over anything their parents foist on them. Weary parents know they are no match for a child's peers, and rightly obsess over the best neighborhood in which to bring their children up."



adjective
obsessed  adj.  
1.
Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern; used with with.
Synonyms: haunted, preoccupied, taken up(predicate).
2.
Influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion.
Synonyms: possessed(predicate).






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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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