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preoccupied

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  To  prepossess;  to  engage,  occupy,  or  engross  the  attention 
  of  beforehand;  hence  to  prejudice. 
 
  I  Think  it  more  respectful  to  the  reader  to  leave 
  something  to  reflections  than  to  preoccupy  his 
  judgment.  --Arbuthnot. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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)}]




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