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| 1. | having an obsession (usually fol. by with or by): He is obsessed with eliminating guilt. |
| 2. | having or displaying signs of an obsession: The audiophile entered the record store wearing an obsessed smile. |
[uhb-ses] | 1. | to dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of (a person); beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally: Suspicion obsessed him. |
| 2. | to think about something unceasingly or persistently; dwell obsessively upon something. |
| ob·sess (əb-sěs', ŏb-) v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v. tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v. intr. To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic: "She's dead. And you're still obsessing" (Scott Turow). [Latin obsidēre, obsess-, to beset, occupy : ob-, on; see ob- + sedēre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European roots.] ob·ses'sor n. |
