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| Main Entry: |
obsess
 [uhb-ses] 
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| 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
- We have a tendency to obsess and orate and that is something the driveway philosophers didn't go in for.
- Racism and injustice obsess him, but he somehow avoids grimness and despair.
- Please try to obsess a little less on your profits, and consider the well-being of your fellow human beings.
| 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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