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List of antonyms from "engagingness" to antonyms from "enhances"


Discover our 241 antonyms available for the terms "englut, engulfed, engender, engendered, engorge, enhanced" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « engross »

  • verb hold one's attention
Example sentences :
  • The novelty of the whole scene appeared for an instant to engross her attention.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • Is it not rather for them a conspiracy to engross its advantages for the favoured few?
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • Not that he took little interest in it, but it had no power to absorb and engross him.
  • Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
  • He had matters on hand of greater moment to engross his attention.
  • Extract from : « A Pirate of Parts » by Richard Neville
  • Had we not had serious work before us, it was one to engross all our thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Tales of the Sea » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • Never, therefore, engross the whole conversation to yourself.
  • Extract from : « The Young Man's Guide » by William A. Alcott
  • His eldest son, Cuthbert, did not engross all his heart, but occupied all his care.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • From a child herself, always 'the children' (of somebody else) to engross her.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete » by John Forster
  • How it lifts us above the things which engross the children of this world!
  • Extract from : « Life and Times of David » by Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • He simply took it for his due, and he had other things to engross his mind now.
  • Extract from : « A Dreadful Temptation » by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller