OBSESSES Synonyms

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• serve oneself to, or consume regularly

• spend extravagantly

• destroy completely

• use up (resources or materials)

• engage fully

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• be in control

• have dominance or the power to defeat over

• be greater in significance than

• look down on

• hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

• the manner in which fabric hangs or falls

• a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination

• arrange in a particular way

• place casually

• cover as if with clothing

• cover or dress loosely with cloth

• devote (oneself) fully to

• consume all of one's attention or time

• attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way

• pay attention to exclusively and obsessively

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• become fixed (on)

• a frequently visited place

• follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to

• haunt like a ghost; pursue

• be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place

• any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears

• someone who is morally reprehensible

• pursue or chase relentlessly

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a swarm of insects that attack plants

• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

• an annoyance

• cause to suffer a blight

• annoy continually or chronically

• have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill

• have ownership or possession of

• enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas

• engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively

• occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

• a severe affliction

• the act of harassing someone

• torment emotionally or mentally

• treat cruelly

• subject to torture

• a mental representation of some haunting experience

• a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

• the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

• a suggestion of some quality

• move like a ghost

• haunt like a ghost; pursue

• write for someone else

• a frequently visited place

• follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to

• haunt like a ghost; pursue

• be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place