# obsessed

Pronunciation: say "uhb-SEST" /əbˈsɛst/

## Adjective

1. Intensely preoccupied with a particular topic or emotion, driven by a powerful and persistent fixation.
   - Simple: Thinking about one thing so much that you cannot focus on anything else.
   - _The detective became obsessed with solving the decades-old disappearance._
   - _Fans grew obsessed with every detail of the singer's private life._
3. Influenced or controlled by evil spirits acting upon a person from outside, a milder condition than possession because the spirits do not actually dwell within the victim.
   - Simple: Bothered or harassed by an evil spirit from the outside, without the spirit living inside the person.
   - _The exorcist concluded the boy was merely obsessed, not possessed, since the demon attacked him only from without._
   - _Medieval chronicles describe nuns who were obsessed by tormenting spirits through the long nights._

## Verb

2. Simple past tense and past participle of obsess. — simple past and past participle of obsess
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of obsess. Use it for the past, or after has, have or had.
   - _The unsolved puzzle obsessed her until she finally cracked it._
   - _Critics have obsessed over the film's hidden meanings since its release._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/obsessed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).