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obsessed

[ uhb-sest ]

adjective

  1. having an obsession (usually followed 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.



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Other Word Forms

  • -Dz· adjective
  • ܲo· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of obsessed1

First recorded in 1835–45; obsess + -ed 2
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Same for "wok on a grill"? I’ve always been obsessed with live-fire cooking—it’s one of the oldest, purest forms of preparing food.

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“He obsessed over silly details, like if the accent of the policeman hinted at his sect, or that we had a cockroach crawling over the picture of an army soldier,” Hajjo said.

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Argentina is obsessed with football, so it is no surprise that meetings between its two biggest clubs are seismic events.

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For a club obsessed with image, results like these cut deep.

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Speaking on her most recent Goop podcast this week, she said: "I went into hardcore macrobiotic for a certain time, that was an interesting chapter where I got obsessed with eating very, very healthily."

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