obsessed

CEFRB2

/əbˈsɛst/

adjective · verb

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adjective
Unable to stop thinking about someone or something.
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adjective
Extra detail
Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.

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In context

Carl, you're obsessed with money.
Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?
It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil...

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Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?
1999 June 28, Mark Lawson, The Guardian
What was starting to unsettle him, to frighten him, was the idea that Merry was less horrified now than curious, and soon he himself became obsessed, though not, like her, by the self-immolators in Vietnam but by the change of demeanor of his eleven-year-old.
1997, Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Everyone lay around in a sort of focused inertia, drinking, handing cigarettes back and forth, forgetting with whom, or whether, they were supposed to be romantically obsessed.
2007, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
Believing that an evil spirit is trying to obsess one is a dangerous belief, and when one comes to believe he is obsessed by an evil spirit, though there is not an evil spirit within a thousand miles of him, he will have all the symptoms.
1915, E. W. Sprague, Spirit Obsession Or a False Doctrine & A Menace to Modern Spiritualism, →ISBN, page 86
What of demon possession, whereby a person is not only obsessed or oppressed by evil spirits, but these spirits actually reside in such a person?
2010, Joseph Agbi, Living in God's Kingdom, →ISBN, page 71

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