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obsess v. t.

To besiege; to beset. (archaic)

To excessively preoccupy the thoughts or feelings of; to haunt the mind persistently.

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Etymology of 'Obsess'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Obsess" Quotes from Famous Books

... my eyes, I saw it side by side with the inscription in "Fifty years of my Bolivar County," and letter for letter, in the same hand. Did the sun shine, I had it in the light, examining it, reading it. To such a point did it obsess me that I refused to allow Maggie to use a tablet of glazed paper she had found in the kitchen table drawer to tie up the jelly-glasses. It seemed, somehow, horrible ...

— The Confession • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... that all the world was good. If she had felt secret misgivings and the tremor of a nervous apprehension, these feelings were sloughed away by this promising morning. The fear she had expressed to Tunis Latham the evening before did not obsess her. She continued placid and outwardly cheerful. Whatever threatened in the immediate future, she determined to meet it with as much composure as she ...

— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper

Words linked to "Obsess" : preoccupy, obsession, ghost, obsessive, worry