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 Translation for 'obsessed by sth' from English to French
obsédé par qc. {adj} {past-p}obsessed by sth.
3 Words
être obnubilé par qc. [idée]to be obsessed by sth.
s'hypnotiser sur qc.to become obsessed by sth.
Partial Matches
obsédé par qc. {adj} {past-p}obsessed with sth.
être obnubilé par qc. [idée]to be obsessed with sth.
s'obnubiler par qn./qc.to be obsessed with sb./sth.
mesurer le succès de qc. à qc.to gauge the success of sth. by sth.
dr.
réparer qc. en faisant qc.
to compensate for sth. by doing sth.
réparer qc. en faisant qc.to put sth. right by doing sth.
trop compenser qc. en faisant qc.to overcompensate for sth. by doing sth.
séparé de qc. par qc. {adj} {past-p}separated from sth. by sth.
obnubilé {adj} {past-p}obsessed
2
hanté {adj}obsessed
possédé {adj}obsessed
obsédé par sa personne {adj} {past-p}self-obsessed
fin.
abaisser qc. de qc.
to reduce sth. by sth.
math.
multiplier qc. par qc.
to multiply sth. by sth.
être obsédé par qc.to be obsessed with something
avoir l'esprit obnubiléto be obsessed with an idea
math.
diviser par qc.
to divide by sth.
se prolonger de qc. [réunion, discussion]to overrun by sth.
entrecoupé de qc. {adj}interrupted by sth.
math.
division {f} par qc.
division by sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • He visited the rich gold-laden town of Mambulao and Paracale, obsessed by them about which he heard from natives there of existing gold mines.
  • The first story stars Takeshi Kaneshiro as a cop obsessed by his breakup with a woman named May, and his encounter with a mysterious drug smuggler (Brigitte Lin).
  • They're obsessed by the size of sexual protuberances – their own as well as women's – and I'm an illusionist.
  • In the BBC sitcom "As Time Goes By", the character Mrs Bale is obsessed by and constantly mentions The Shipping Forecast much to the befuddlement of the other characters.
  • "Gaitskell was obsessed by Bevan and by the need to establish his authority over him".

  • In an opinion piece in "The Independent", Craig asked why fiction remains obsessed by historical fiction and neglects the contemporary, saying she has "set out to take the DNA of a Victorian novel – its spirit of realism, its strong plot, its cast of characters who are not passively shaped by circumstances but who rise to challenges or escape them."
  • He said that the song was "about being enslaved and obsessed by love" and compared it to "Heathcliff digging up Kathy's corpse and dancing with it in the cold moonlight".
  • In 2008, director Pablo Larraín made a film, "Tony Manero", about a Chilean dancer obsessed by the main character in "Saturday Night Fever" who tries to win a Tony Manero look-alike contest.
  • Bate in the finest insight on Johnson I know, emphasised that no other writer is so obsessed by the realisation that the mind is an "activity", one that will turn to destructiveness of the self or of others unless it is directed to labour."
  • The name was derived from the Sodom song "Deathlike Silence" (from their 1986 release "Obsessed by Cruelty").

  • "G-Sale" is a 2003 mockumentary film about garage sales and the people who are obsessed by them. The film is reminiscent of the movies of Christopher Guest and won several film festival awards.
  • It was edited by William Parker Snow, equally obsessed by Franklin's fate.
  • The set includes one song from each of the band's studio albums between "Obsessed by Cruelty" and "Genesis XIX", in addition to "Sepulchral Voice" from the "In the Sign of Evil" EP.
  • The plan seemed ill-conceived and suggests that Narborough was obsessed by the possibility of treasure.
  • She wrote that Hitler and Luther were both obsessed by the "demonologized universe" inhabited by Jews and that the similarities between Luther's anti-Jewish writings and modern antisemitism are no coincidence because they derived from a common history of Judenhass.

  • The researchers concluded that individuals who are in excellent health and who have never experienced any serious accident or illness may be obsessed by gruesome and relentless fears of dying or of being killed.
  • Beckett was obsessed by a desire to create what he called a "literature of the unword", and the play represents another example of this effort.
  • Arnulf was tormented by the violence that surrounded him and feared that he had played a role in the wars and murders that plagued the ruling families. Obsessed by these sins, Arnulf went to a bridge over the Moselle river.
  • Author Mark Gatiss described the "Nightshade" serial in his notes accompanying the e-book release as "a TV series that isn't quite "Quatermass" and isn't quite "Doctor Who", adding "I was utterly obsessed by Quatermass at that time".
  • He has been described as an "astronomer, mystic and storyteller" who was "obsessed by life after death, and on other worlds, and [...] seemed to see no distinction between the two".

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