obsessed
verbDefinitions
simple past and past participle of obsess
Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion
Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
- Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?
- Everyone lay around in a sort of focused inertia, drinking, handing cigarettes back and forth, forgetting with whom, or whether, they were supposed to be romantically obsessed.
Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do…
Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
- Believing that an evil spirit is trying to obsess one is a dangerous belief, and when one comes to believe he is obsessed by an evil spirit, though there is not an evil spirit within a thousand miles of him, he will have all the symptoms.
- It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil...
- What of demon possession, whereby a person is not only obsessed or oppressed by evil spirits, but these spirits actually reside in such a person?
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at obsessed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at obsessed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at obsessed
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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