eaten up with/by sth
informalIf someone is eaten up with/by a negative emotion, they are experiencing it very strongly:
He was so eaten up with guilt, he became ill.
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Continually thinking about
- absorb
- absorbed
- axe
- be devoured by sth idiom
- be hung up on sth idiom
- be wrapped up in sth/sb idiom
- devour
- fixation
- get into sb
- have an axe to grind idiom
- have sth on the brain idiom
- hobbyhorse
- mania
- nag
- obsessive
- one-track mind
- preoccupation
- preoccupied
- preoccupy
- prey
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