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What does obsess mean?

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Verb
  1. (passive, constructed with "with") To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
  2. (transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
  3. (intransitive, colloquial, construed with over) To think or talk obsessively about.
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When those dark and provocative thoughts enter your mind uninvited, don't concentrate and obsess over them.
Sure, I'll obsess over a book or the folder structure on a hard drive, but laundry piles up in my big basket for weeks, and I never remember to water the plants.
The movies that enthrall, enrage and obsess a billion Indians, on the subcontinent and around the world.
Grandiosity, rigidity, and intolerance of ambiguity, and a tendency to obsess about things are among the traits associated with the dry drunk.
The matters that obsess her protagonists clearly obsess her and her obsessible readers as well.
Or why did America obsess over the trial of Jodi Arias, who killed a white man?

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