单词 | obsess |
释义 | obsess/əbˈsɛs /verb [with object] 1Preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone) continually and to a troubling extent: he was obsessed with the idea of revenge I became more and more obsessed by him...
Synonyms preoccupy, be uppermost in someone's mind, prey on someone's mind, prey on, possess, haunt, consume, plague, torment, hound, bedevil, take control of, take over, become an obsession with, have a hold on, engross, eat up, have a grip on, grip, dominate, rule, control, beset, monopolize be fixated, be preoccupied, be infatuated, be possessed, be haunted, be consumed, be plagued, be tormented, be bedevilled, be eaten up, be gripped, be in the grip of, be dominated, be beset informal be hung up about/on, have a thing about, have something/someone on the brain, have a bee in one's bonnet North American informal be hipped 1.1 [no object] Be constantly talking or worrying about something: her husband, who is obsessing about the wrong she has done him...
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'haunt, possess', referring to an evil spirit): from Latin obsess- 'besieged', from the verb obsidere, from ob- 'opposite' + sedere 'sit'. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.
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