obsess
IPA: ʌbsˈɛs
verb
- (passive voice, constructed with "with") To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
- (transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
- (intransitive, colloquial, construed with over) To think or talk obsessively about.
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Examples of "obsess" in Sentences
- So, can you now get another issue to "obsess" about?
- Ah, hell, I obsess from the moment something is completed.
- The word obsess showed up in English straight out of Classical Latin back in 1440.
- Besorge, I do not "obsess", it is you that is obsession of dialectics, words,etc...
- Speaking of what people think, this morning Obama is saying that people "obsess" too much on what he says.
- I'm off to "obsess" about race and gender at a conference about honoring the "obsession" with race and gender.
- Which means if you think a marginalised person is too obsessed or too emotional or angry or taking it all too personally and it bothers you then work towards a world that doesn't FORCE them to 'obsess' or that doesn't hurt or anger them.
- And if you think Mr. Lott has been silent for the last four years, Tim Grieve has a collection of some of the Gentleman from Mississippi's bon mots: Lott on Iraq: After declaring that Senate Republicans and "real people out there in the world" don't "obsess" about Iraq like reporters do, Lott said in September that he doesn't understand why Sunnis and Shiites are fighting each other anyway.
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