Crossword-Solution: OBSESSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Obsession | n. | The act of besieging. |
| Obsession | n. | The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBSESSION (5)
They were steaming up the China Sea when the idea first suggested itself, and as he sat idly during the long, hot days the thought grew upon him, expanding into a thousand wonderful possibilities, until it became crystalized into what was a little short of an obsession.
But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition.
His rage was a kind of obsession, an evil mania, the drunkenness of passion, the exalted and perverted fury of the Berserker, blind and deaf, a thing insensate.
She had thought his magnanimous treatment of the sailor little short of heroic; and it had deepened the girl's horror of Billy Byrne until it now amounted to little short of an obsession.
Still unable to shake off the obsession of the intense stillness, she sat down at the piano and began to run over the first act of the _Walkure_, the last of his roles they had practiced together; playing listlessly and absently at first, but with gradually increasing seriousness.
Quotes with OBSESSION (3)
Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Don’t let your problems become your obsession.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1963–2024).