1
[ verb ] haunt like a ghost; pursue

Synonyms

haunt ghost

Examples

"Fear of illness haunts her"

Used in print

("Reviews"...)

He was obsessed by disease and poverty , by the melancholy of old_age and the tyranny of lust .

(Charles Glicksberg, "Sex in Contemporary Literature"...)

It is sex that obsesses them , sex that is at the basis of their aesthetic creed .

Related terms

preoccupy preoccupy ghost

2
[ verb ] be preoccupied with something

Examples

"She is obsessing over her weight"

Related terms

worry obsession

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Rhymes with

assess success abscess reassess excess recess access process reprocess excess recess princess

Phonetic and Homophones

AH0 B S EH1 S

Similar Spelling

obsessed obsessive obsession object

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