obsess

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  1. transitive verb To preoccupy the mind of excessively.
  2. intransitive verb To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic: "She's dead. And you're still obsessing” (Scott Turow).

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  • How could I allow myself the time to obsess, to cave in to anger, bitterness—or grief? —  Buchanan, Edna - Cold Case Squad (v1.0) (html).html
  • Do you ever resent the fact that, while Josh Brolin has become a highly-acclaimed movie star, his beard has been struggling to make ends meet and was abandoned to obsess over an Into the Blue sequel script where bearded skeletal-Brolin returns for revenge?
  • From the New Deal to the New Democrats gregious as the bonuses being given the AIG crowd are, they are a miniscule part of the bailout and while they need to be dealt with, we shouldn't obsess over them. —  CounterPunch
  • The story, which was Mr. Bowden's first for the magazine, made quite an impression on the small-and ever-shrinking-community of media reporters and pundits who obsess about —  Home | The New York Observer
  • I'll take it on faith that there may have been a time where film did not obsess the young, stylish and amoral. —  Anthony Is Right
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin obsidēre, obsess-, to beset, occupy : ob-, on; see ob- + sedēre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin obsessus, past participle of obsidere, sit on or in, remain, sit down before, besiege, from ob, before, + sedere, sit: see sit, session, etc. Cf. assess, possess.
 

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