{
    "term": "obsess",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "obsess",
            "heSheIt": "obsesses"
        },
        "pastSimple": "obsessed",
        "pastParticiple": "obsessed",
        "ingForm": "obsessing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to completely fill your mind so that you cannot think of anything else, in a way that is not reasonable or normal",
            "sensetop": "be obsessed by somebody/somethingbe obsessed with somebody/somethingobsess somebody",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's obsessed by computers.",
                    "contextForm": "be obsessed by somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's completely obsessed with him.",
                    "contextForm": "be obsessed with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The need to produce the most exciting newspaper story obsesses most journalists.",
                    "contextForm": "obsess somebody"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be always talking or worrying about a particular thing, especially when this annoys other people",
            "sensetop": "obsess (about something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I think you should try to stop obsessing about food."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əbˈses/",
                "audio": "ob/obsess/obsess__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əbˈsesɪz/",
                "audio": "ob/obsess/obsesses__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əbˈsest/",
                "audio": "ob/obsess/obsessed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əbˈsesɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ob/obsess/obsessing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əbˈses/",
                "audio": "ob/obsess/obsess__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əbˈsesɪz/",
                "audio": "ob/obsess/obsesses__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əbˈsest/",
                "audio": "ob/obsess/obsessed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əbˈsesɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ob/obsess/obsessing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘haunt, possess’, referring to an evil spirit): from Latin obsess- ‘besieged’, from the verb obsidere, from ob- ‘opposite’ + sedere ‘sit’. The current sense dates from the late 19th cent."
}