The whole relationship obsessed me for years.
She used to obsess about her weight.
Meaning of obsess in English
(Definition of obsess from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of obsess
obsess
They obsess over numbers and prefer to work behind a screen.
From VentureBeat
While making more of it might have obvious benefits, obsessing over it stops you from savoring many important aspects of your life.
From TIME
Not only are we obsessed, we are paying to be fed this type of entertainment.
From Huffington Post
Especially if you spend the best years of your life obsessing about money.
From Huffington Post
And my country needs to stop obsessing about 1953 and the coup.
From NPR
But obsessing over how it matched up to its fictional depiction was missing the point, the article posited.
From TIME
Since the beginning of civilization, humans have obsessed over a way to reverse aging.
From Wired
They only realized this once they stopped obsessing on the last click before a sale, and tracked customers across channels.
From Business Insider
What if obsessing over information actually reduces the quality of our decisions?
From Fast Company
Making the audience happy is something for management consultants -- not punk musicians! -- to obsess about.
From Slate Magazine
Honestly, it is embarrasing for you to obsess with their appearance, wealth or romantic lives.
From CNN
They can obsess over their friendships, monitoring social ups and downs in extreme detail.
From TIME
The 5-foot-seven-inch actress finds ways to stay close to her ideal weight of 125 pounds other than obsessing over the scale.
From New York Daily News
And as computers got cheaper, obsessing over components became less important.
From TIME
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takıntılı olmak, hiç aklından çıkmamak, kafaya takmak…
obséder, être obsédé/-ée par…
つきまとう, 心配（しんぱい）する…
obsederen…
posednout…
besætte…
mempengaruhi pikiran…
ครอบงำ…
ám ảnh…
mieć obsesję (na punkcie ), opętać…
anfäkta, hemsöka…
terlalu memikirkan…
verfolgen…
besette, være en besettelse for, plage…
переслідувати…
завладевать умом, преследовать…
