Usually means: Continuously preoccupied with one thought.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. obsesses: Merriam-Webster
  2. obsesses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. obsesses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Obsesses, obsesses: Wordnik
  5. obsesses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. obsesses: Wiktionary
  7. obsesses: Dictionary.com
  8. obsesses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obsesses: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obsesses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See obsess as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (obsess)

verb:  (passive voice, constructed with "with") To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
verb:  (transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial, construed with over) To think or talk obsessively about.
▸ Also see obsess


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