Слово англійською: obsess
Дієслово
Переклад obsess українською: заволодівати розумом; не давати спокою, гнітити (про ідею, страх тощо), вселятися (про нечисту силу)
Детальний опис
- [transitive, usually passive] to completely fill your mind so that you cannot think of anything else, in a way that is not reasonable or normal
- be obsessed by somebody/something He's obsessed by computers.
- be obsessed with somebody/something She's completely obsessed with him.
- obsess somebody The need to produce the most exciting newspaper story obsesses most journalists.
- [intransitive] obsess (about something) to be always talking or worrying about a particular thing, especially when this annoys other people
- I think you should try to stop obsessing about food.
see also self-obsessed Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘haunt, possess’, referring to an evil spirit): from Latin obsess- ‘besieged’, from the verb obsidere, from ob- ‘opposite’ + sedere ‘sit’. The current sense dates from the late 19th cent.