verb vərb/
noun GRAMMAR
noun: verb; plural noun: verbs
1.
a word used to describe
an action, state,
or occurrence, and forming the main
part
of the predicate of a sentence,
such as hear, become, happen.
verb
verb: verb; 3rd person present: verbs; past tense:
verbed; past participle: verbed;
gerund or present participle: verbing
1.
use (a word that is not conventionally
used as a verb, typically a noun) as a verb.
"any English noun can be verbed,
but some are more resistant than others"
Origin: late Middle English: from Old French verbe
or Latin verbum ‘word, verb.’verb: ob·sess əbˈses/verb
obsess; 3rd person present: obsesses;
past tense: obsessed; past participle: obsessed;
gerund or present participle: obsessing
preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone)
continually, intrusively, and to a troubling
extent.
"he was obsessed with the theme of
death"
synonyms: preoccupy, be uppermost
in someone's mind, prey on someone's mind,
on, possess, haunt, consume, plague,
torment, hound, bedevil, beset, take control of,
control, take over, have a hold on, rule,
eat up, have a grip on, grip
"being thin is obsessing her"
be fixated on/upon, be preoccupied with,
be possessed by, be consumed with/by (thoughts of),
an obsession with;
be infatuated with, be besotted with,
be smitten with;
informal: have a thing about/for, be hung up
about/on, have it bad for
"he was obsessed with his roommate's sister"
(of a person) be preoccupied with or
constantly
worrying about something.
"her husband, who is obsessing about the wrong she has
done him"
Origin: 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 century.
