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possessed by
Idioms and Phrases
Driven by, obsessed with, as in He was possessed by the idea of becoming a millionaire . This idiom employs possess in the sense of “dominate one's thoughts or ideas,†a usage dating from the late 1500s.Example Sentences
It’s 20 years for me and Jer writing together, and I’d never felt more possessed by it.
She wrote that she believed that her two youngest were possessed by demons and by mistreating them, she would get closer to God.
Dressed in MJ's Billie Jean outfit, she pirouetted and moonwalked and jumped on the tables as if she'd been possessed by the man himself.
"Fights, Camera, Action" features an excerpt of a 1988 interview with the woman whose toaster is allegedly possessed by Satan, featured on the "Today" show.
She’d be compelling even if she wasn’t possessed by a contagious demon.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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