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What (who) is OBSESS - definition
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Obsessive; Obsess; Obsession (album); Obsession (movie); Obsession (disambiguation); Obsession the movie; Obsession DVD; Obsession (film); Obsession (EP); Obsession (song); Obsessive behavior
obsess
¦ verb preoccupy continually or to a troubling extent.
?be constantly worrying about something.
Derivatives
obsessive adjective &noun
obsessively adverb
obsessiveness noun
Origin
ME: from L. obsess-, obsidere 'besiege'.
obsess
(obsesses, obsessing, obsessed)
If something obsesses you or if you obsess about something, you keep thinking about it and find it difficult to think about anything else.
A string of scandals is obsessing America...
She stopped drinking but began obsessing about her weight...
I started obsessing that Trish might die.
VERB: V n, V about/over n, V that
Examples of use of OBSESS
1. I don‘t obsess over being home at a certain time to watch someone‘s fake life.
2. But they should worry about their own strategy –– and not obsess about Republican mind control.
3. How French to obsess about food in such a ridiculous manner.
4. "I can‘t obsess over that or I‘ll make myself crazy. . . . I‘m not Bill O‘Reilly.
5. It can obsess children, as I know, and continue to obsess them when, as apprehensive adults, they turn up to watch their team and are mesmerised by a game of such simplicity and yet such complicated possibilities.