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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



... of the ordinary instincts of common humanity would have so greeted his wife just when she had emerged, spent and exhausted, from woman's supreme conflict with death. But the fanatic loses sight of normal values, and Hugh, obsessed by his newly conceived idea of atoning for the sin of his marriage, was utterly oblivious of the enormity of his conduct ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... him now. It was all mysterious. He knew that something of a very grave nature was in the air, but what it was and why his real master never came to him as did the other men, he did not know, though sometimes he would be obsessed with troubled thoughts that all was not well with ...
— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton
... of the public mind, be it understood, up to the time of the notorious and scandalous defection of this obsessed creature, an occasion which I cannot recall without shuddering, and which inspired me to a course that was later to have the most inexplicable ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... concerned Lucy, yet they only came and went swiftly through her mind. She was obsessed by things ...
— Wildfire • Zane Grey
... to me by the same physician, serves to throw a light upon the connection of vital and physical energies. The doctor in question was treating a patient, who was apparently "obsessed," by means of electricity. The galvanometer needle showed what slight variations in the current there were during the course of the treatment. In the middle of the process, while the patient was conversing with the doctor, she was suddenly ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington


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