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Obsessed

adjective

Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something. Synonyms: haunted, preoccupied, taken up. "Was absolutely obsessed with the girl" , "Got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children" , "He was taken up in worry for the old woman"

Influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion. Synonym: possessed.

Obsess

verb

Haunt like a ghost; pursue. Synonyms: ghost, haunt.

Be preoccupied with something.

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"Obsessed" Quotes from Famous Books

... still obsessed by his anguished desire to reassure her with the normality of his touch. "See, Annie, it's daddy. Ann Elizabeth's daddy." With a flash her arm and the glint of the paper cutter eluded him again and again, but finally he caught her by the waist, struggling, ...

— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst

... the cold or the great Wilderness itself. It did not seem possible that he could feel the need for food, for rest, that ever his vital forces could wane. In the north was starvation for them, a starvation to which they drew ever nearer day by day, but irresistibly the notion obsessed them that this forerunner, the forerunner of the Trail, proved no such material necessities, that he drew his sustenance from his environment in some mysterious manner not to be understood. Always on and on and on the Trail ...

— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White

... from an exaggerated ego. Her trouble was psychological. The men who study the strange workings and twists of the human mind which land some men in the institutions for the criminal insane, agree that when any man becomes obsessed with an idea and "rides a hobby" to the exclusion of all else, he loses his balance and develops an obliquity of view which makes ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... privileged to attend school at all was wholly due to a great fear that obsessed Madame of doing anything to invite the interest of the authorities. She was an honest woman, according to her lights, an honest wife, and kept an honest house; but she feared the gendarmerie more ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... is a pathetic exception in the outward lives of so many men of genius, the bloom being, to the instructed eye, only the indication of some subtle nervous derangement, only the forerunner of decay." The overmastering cerebral agitation that obsessed Wagner's life, was as with Chopin a symptom, not a sickness; but in the latter it had not yet assumed ...

— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker

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