Crossword-Solution: OBSESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Obsess | v. t. | To besiege; to beset. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| OBSESS | anagram | BOSSES |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBSESS (5)
Gillian, thrust rather into the position of an onlooker, watched the proceedings with amused eyes--her amusement only tempered by the slightly apprehensive feeling concerning Magda of which she had been vaguely conscious from the first moment she had found her in Davilof’s company, and which continued to obsess her.
How or why it had come to obsess him he could not imagine, but for some reason Miles Canon and the stormy waters below it had assumed terrible potentialities and he could not shake off the conviction that they were destined to prove his undoing.
But now, of course, the war had come to obsess his mind, driving him to terror for the future of humanity, tempting him to martyrdoms and domestic irritations.
But the evolutionary process has been clumsy; we are not properly adjusted; we become the victims of ideas fixes; ideas and activities obsess us quite without relation to their hedonic value.
The worst I can do is to single--and I might clout a home run.” “But Skinner has been away two weeks--” “Enough! It would be a bad thing to obsess Skinner with the notion that we can't get along without him.
Quotes with OBSESS (3)
You can obsess and obsess over how things ended — what you did wrong or could have done differently — but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?
I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.
To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present, no thought of what's gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But a life with meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 201 times in crossword archives (1971–2025).