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Main Entry:	obsess [uhb-ses] Show IPA/əbˈsɛs/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	preoccupy
Synonyms:	beset, consume, dominate, engross, grip, harass, haunt, hold, infatuate, possess, torment

Main Entry:	consume
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	use up
Synonyms:	absorb, apply, avail oneself of, deplete, devour, dissipate, dominate, drain, drivel, eat up, employ, engross, exhaust, expend, finish, finish up, fritter away, frivol away, go, go through, have recourse to, lavish, lessen, monopolize, obsess, preoccupy, profit by, put away, put to use, run out of, run through, spend, squander, throw away, trifle, utilize, vanish, wash up, waste, wear out
Antonyms:	accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, not use, store

Main Entry:	fixate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	focus
Synonyms:	become attached, center on, direct, haunt, infatuate, obsess, rivet one's eyes, zero in on

Example Sentences

Almost all of us can find something to obsess about at a restaurant.

We stew and obsess and make tiny things into giant ones.

They obsess over an occupation that should have been ended decades ago.

Almost all of us can find something to obsess about at a restaurant.

We stew and obsess and make tiny things into giant ones.

They obsess over an occupation that should have been ended decades ago.

More than biology, their designs suggest the work of an artist left to obsess among tiny forms.

Please try to obsess a little less on your profits, and consider the well-being of your fellow human beings.

But that's the difference between people who obsess about fashion and people who obsess about food.

She begins to obsess about the possibility of some kind of fatal personal shortcoming.

Chinese are obsess with shoes, they simply loves them, hence with so many designs not available elsewhere.

So a lot of people really obsess over the rain, because it can mean the difference between a good year and starvation.

To women who obsess over and excessively pluck their brows, tough talk is sometimes necessary.

There are forums there for women ttc, and you can obsess all you want with them.

How anyone can obsess about the place beggars belief.

Racism and injustice obsess him, but he somehow avoids grimness and despair.

Both countries obsess over it and have nukes aimed at each other.

So, my message to all those who currently obsess about inflation, is don't worry.

As a gross endictment, they obsess on their rights without fronting their responsibility.

While reporters obsess over event details-from the.

What prompted fans and sportswriters to obsess over suspected juicers in the national pastime were numbers.

Which is to say: do it carefully, and then don't obsess too much.

They obsess about what a sad life she's had, what must have happened to her in.

In your case it dragged on for a couple of years being grad school admissions, but seriously man, it's nothing to obsess over.

Grad students are notoriously neurotic and prone to obsess over doing exactly what we're told.

If you're going to be fanatical about something, there are worse things to obsess over than fuel mileage.

We have a tendency to obsess and orate and that is something the driveway philosophers didn't go in for.

They signed on to obsess over ambiguous specters of doom, not us.

Second, leaders in multilateral efforts often obsess about the diplomatic process and ignore the realities on the ground.

Hyperakt has created free desktop wallpapers you can download on its site so you can obsess over the matches all day.

The drum begins to obsess her, as she increasingly questions her sense of self.

He wakes up in a hospital, unable to remember what happened, and this episode of amnesia begins to obsess him.

Main Entry:	haunt
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	visit as a spirit
Synonyms:	agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, be ever present, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook, stay with, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo, walk, weigh on, worry

Main Entry:	rankle
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	annoy, irritate
Synonyms:	aggravate, anger, bother, chafe, embitter, exasperate, fester, fret, gall, get one's goat, harass, hurt, inflame, irk, mortify, nettle, obsess, pain, pester, plague, rile, torment, vex
Antonyms:	delight, make happy, please

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