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Obsess   /əbsˈɛs/   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."





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"Obsess" Quotes from Famous Books



... beginnings; men and women go on in the path they have marked out for themselves. Their imaginations have become firm and rigid even if they have not withered, and there is no turning them from the conviction of their brief experience that almost all that is, is inexorably so. Accomplished things obsess us more and more. What man or woman over thirty in Great Britain dares to hope for a republic before it is time to die? Yet the thing might be. Or for the reunion of the English- speaking peoples? Or for the deliverance of all ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... blockade, besiegement. Associated Words: obsidional, besiege, beleaguer, obsess, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... a passion for boots you have!" moaned the unhappy painter; "they obsess you, they warp your judgment. Can you think of nothing in the world but boots? Look, we come to the gem of the exhibition—a velvet jacket! A jacket like this confers an air of greatness, one could not feel the pinch of poverty in such a jacket. It is, I confess, a little white at the ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... of the theatrical world and its incessant demands began to obsess her. She felt that from the first day she stood in a manager's office, seeking the chance to start, it had given her everything ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... the most of its votaries among good douce people who have never written to or for a newspaper in their life, who would never talk of 'adverse climatic conditions' when they mean 'bad weather'; who have never trifled with verbs such as 'obsess,' 'recrudesce,' 'envisage,' 'adumbrate,' or with phrases such as 'the psychological moment,' 'the true inwardness,' 'it gives furiously to think.' It dallies with Latinity—'sub silentio,' 'de die in diem,' 'cui bono?' ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch


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