Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word OBSESS
OBSESS
Definitions of OBSESS
- (passive, 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.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using OBSESS in a Sentence
- To this day there has never been a single Boondocks strip that I did not personally touch—I still obsess over the details of Huey, Riley, Caesar and Granddad.
- Zeus gave Lamia the power of prophecy and the ability to take out and reinsert her eyes, possibly because she was cursed by Hera with insomnia or because she could no longer close her eyes, so that she was forced to always obsess over her lost children.
- In his autobiography, Baylor notes his rough experience in his first spring training with the Yankees as Steinbrenner would obsess over the exhibition games against the rivaling Mets and Red Sox or New York-televised games.
- Guevara also noted 'turbulence' in the region under the Río Grande, but having not actually crossed this river, Guevara, historian John Lee Anderson argues, used it as a symbol of the United States, and this was an early glimmer of the notion of neocolonial exploitation that would obsess him in later life.
- As opposed to her personality in Space Jam, she is portrayed as an eccentric, scatterbrained, endearing, and cheerful young rabbit who tends to obsess over Bugs, whom she refers to as "Bun-Bun".
- Meg has a larger role in the sequel musical, Love Never Dies, where she craves the Phantom's recognition of her talent and is in love with him, but he ignores her entirely and continues to obsess over Christine.
- Potpourri Doll: A mentally unbalanced man buys his daughter a Plant Doll, and starts to obsess over the "nauseating scent" coming from it.
- The two talk about the previous horseraces of the week and obsess over The Quarryman, a book about Michelangelo.
- Initially he believes this to be the start of the good life and congratulates himself daily, hourly but as he learns more about Ann’s past he starts to obsess over the time before he knew her, resenting her previous love affairs, apparently unable to accept that she enjoyed a life at all before they met.
- Eden-Marie Abramowicz, Charlie Habegger, Truman Severson and Ryan Redden obsess over every detail when it comes to extracting the perfect cup of coffee.
- It isn't disposable, but it also doesn't offer anything to obsess about, which is a real change of pace for a filmmaker who launched a zillion Tumblrs and Pinterest boards and gave humanity the gif of Emma Watson saying 'I wanna rob.
- Since Roko reported having nightmares about the Basilisk and Yudkowsky didn’t want that to happen to other users who might obsess over the idea, was worried there might be some variant on Roko's argument that worked, and wanted more formal assurances that this wasn't the case, he took down the post and banned discussion of the topic outright for five years on the platform.
- Because of the prevalence of digital imaging and sharing, members of the "selfie generation" can hyper-fixate and obsess over minor or even nonexistent flaws in their appearance, and that can lead to lower self-esteem and higher self-dissatisfaction as well as dysmorphia.
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