Found 3 items, similar to preoccupied.
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Definition: preoccupy
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Definition: preoccupied
preoccupied
adj 1: deeply absorbed in thought;
“as distant and bemused as a
professor listening to the prattling of his freshman
class”;
“lost in thought”;
“a preoccupied frown” [syn:
bemused,
deep in thought(p),
lost(p)]
2: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with
something;
“became more and more haunted by the stupid
riddle”;
“was absolutely obsessed with the girl”;
“got no
help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children”;
“he was taken up in worry for the old woman” [syn:
haunted,
obsessed,
taken up(p)]
preoccupy
v 1: engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or
occupy urgently or obsessively;
“His work preoccupies
him”;
“The matter preoccupies her completley--she cannot
think of anything else”
2: occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or
appropriate for use in advance;
“the army preoccupied the
hills”
[also:
preoccupied]
preoccupied
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English → English (gcide)
Definition: Preoccupied
Preoccupy
\Pre*oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Preoccupied
(-p[=i]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Preoccupying.] [Cf. F.
pr['e]occuper. See
Preoccupate,
Occupy.]
1. To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a
country not before held.
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2. To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention
of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.
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I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave
something to reflections than to preoccupy his
judgment. --Arbuthnot.
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