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As a verb obsess

is to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.

As a noun pregorexia is

a condition where a pregnant mother is obsessed with being thin.

obsess

English

Verb

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  • To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
  • (label) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
  • To think or talk obsessively about.

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    pregorexia

    English

    Noun

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  • A condition where a pregnant mother is obsessed with being thin.
  • * 2008', Jane Bainbridge, "'''Pregorexia : body image over baby?" (article), in ''British Journal of Midwifery , Volume 16, Issue 9, September 4 2008, page 608.
  • *2009 , Kevin Courtney, "Pregorexia", The Irish Times , 7 July 2009:
    • Pregorexia came on the radar in 2006 when former TV presenter Liz Fraser told Marie Claire magazine about her struggle with bulimia during pregnancy.
  • *2012 , Alison Smith-Squire, " The 'pregorexic' mother whose weight plummeted to FOUR STONE because she was so worried about getting fat during pregnancy", Daily Mail , 2 March 2012:
    • Her dramatic weight loss meant Mrs Bassett had to be taken into hospital when just 11 weeks pregnant. Evan was born early at 30 weeks, but her ‘pregorexia ’ left her too frail to care for him until he was 14 months old.
  • *2013 , Emily Hourican, How to (Really) Be a Mother , Gill & Macmillan (2013), ISBN 9780717158461, unnumbered page:
    • Pregorexia , or 'mommyrexia', as they dub it Stateside, is a growing disorder: women exercising madly all through the pregnancy (there are now scores of websites devoted to selling workout gear for pregnant women, while sizes for maternity clothes these days often include an extra-small, which would be impossibly tiny even for the average non-pregnant woman),

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    * New York Times: Buzz Words 2008