OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 35665

obsessed

/əbˈsɛst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
obcecado • obsesionado • obseso
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 Mat…
What was starting to unsettle him, to frighten him, was the idea that Merry was less horrified now than curious, and soon he himself became obsessed, though not, like her, by the s…