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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pree-ok-yuh-pahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : priˈɒk yəˌpaɪ |
Definition of preoccupy
Origin :- 1560s, from pre- + occupy. Related: Preoccupied; preoccupying.
- verb absorb
- To preoccupy this ground, therefore, seemed an important step.
- Extract from : « Xerxes » by Jacob Abbott
- And certainly he had enough to excite and preoccupy him just now.
- Extract from : « The Clique of Gold » by Emile Gaboriau
- We should forget our successes if they cause pride or preoccupy the mind.
- Extract from : « Character and Conduct » by Various
- Other friends would come in and preoccupy her mind and heart.
- Extract from : « The Major » by Ralph Connor
- We should not preoccupy the audience with our own personality.
- Extract from : « Delsarte System of Oratory » by Various
- A wise woman would not have brought Irene Lauderdale down here, to preoccupy her.
- Extract from : « The Celebrity at Home » by Violet Hunt
- He refers, for proof of his statements, mostly to English documents, and does not try to preoccupy your mind.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 » by Various
- The Government should preoccupy itself largely with this matter of assimilation: for the process is not complete.
- Extract from : « The Argentine in the Twentieth Century » by Albert B. Martinez
- She expostulated earnestly with him on the folly of allowing money cares and ambitions to preoccupy him.
- Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- This emotional fuss in the young human animal was beginning to preoccupy the newspaper world.
- Extract from : « Mate in Two Moves » by Winston Marks
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