obsess

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ob·sess /əbˈses/ verb

1 [transitiveT]OBSESSION if something or someone obsesses you, you think or worry about them all the time and you cannot think about anything else – used to show disapproval 使痴迷，使迷恋，使心神不宁〔含贬义〕

be obsessed by/with something/somebody

A lot of young girls are obsessed by their weight.

许多年轻女孩都过于担心自己的体重。

Jody’s been obsessed with some lifeguard for months.

乔迪几个月来一直迷恋着某个救生员。

n Grammar

Obsess is usually passive in this meaning.

2 be obsessing about/over something/somebody informal to think about something or someone much more than is necessary or sensible 对某事/某人过分担心

Stop obsessing about your hair. It’s fine.

别再过于担心你的头发了，它看上去很好。

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obsess• Some women obsess about their thighs and stomachs.• The longer you provide wifely comforts while he obsesses about this woman, the worse it's going to be.• Will the next millennium see man obsessed by athletic entertainment to the exclusion of other kinds of culture?• The intermittent, flickering reality that obsesses Gael is, from the Catholic perspective, itself but a delusion.• The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her.• The more our rational faculty is suppressed, the more obsessed we are by it.• It was the side that seemed unnecessarily obsessed with the dark, seedy side of life.• Arax, then 15, became obsessed with the murder, which was never solved.• And he becomes obsessed with this tape.• Sabich is obsessed, you said.

be obsessed by/with something/somebody• Fundamentalists were obsessed with doctrinal purity.• No wonder Laimonis was obsessed by her.• We suffer a great handicap in dealing with a Government who are obsessed with secrecy.• Company executives grumble that analysts are obsessed with short-term performance at the expense of long-term growth and profitability.• I think all women are obsessed with something, and it's due to the media.• Finally, it is not Labour and the trade unions who are obsessed with strikes but the media.• By then, the prosecutor said, Lawhone was obsessed with the girl and began asking friends to help kidnap her.• For a long time he was obsessed by the image of them in bed together.

Origin obsess

(1500-1600) Latin past participle of obsidere “to besiege”

ob·sess verb →n GRAMMAR1

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