obsesses
- 1Third-person singular simple present of obsess.
My brother obsesses over the stock market and checks the prices all day long.
Whenever she travels, she obsesses about whether she locked the front door.
Note
The present-tense form works in two directions. With a person as subject, it is intransitive, a colloquial use that usually takes over or about: she obsesses over details. With the fixation as subject, it turns transitive and the person becomes the object: the question obsesses him. The ending is -es rather than -s because the stem already closes on a hissing -ss.
The unsolved case still obsesses the retired detective.
One fear obsesses him more than any other: being forgotten.
obsesses is a form of obsess
obsess, verb: To be completely preoccupied with a single topic or emotion, returning to it again and again. Full entry
- Spelling
- obsess → obsesses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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