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Preoccupy   /priˈɑkjəpˌaɪ/   Listen
Preoccupy

verb
(past & past part. preoccupied; pres. part. preoccupying)
1.
Engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively.  "The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else"
2.
Occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance.





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"Preoccupy" Quotes from Famous Books



... demonstrative toward her parents than toward me; while her mother, gracious to her as to all, yet rarely caressed her, and Kenmure, though habitually kind, was inclined to ignore her existence, and could scarcely tolerate that she should for one instant preoccupy his wife. For Laura he lived, and she must live for him. He had a studio, which I rarely entered and Marian never, though Laura was almost constantly there; and after the first cordiality was past, I observed that their daily expeditions ...
— Oldport Days • Thomas Wentworth Higginson


Words linked to "Preoccupy" :   usurp, haunt, obsess, control, preoccupation, preoccupancy, arrogate, take over, assume, command, prepossess, seize, ghost


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