preoccupy – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
preoccupy
v.
reflect, meditate on, think; worry, bother; prepossess, appropriate in advance (property)
preoccupy
Verb
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"
(hypernym) control, command
(hyponym) haunt, obsess, ghost
(derivation) preoccupation
2. occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance; "the army preoccupied the hills"
(hypernym) assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate
(derivation) preoccupancy, preoccupation
preoccupy
v.
zcela poutat pozornost; způsobovat starosti
preoccupy
Czas.
absorbować; pochłaniać umysł
Preoccupy
(v. t.)
To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.
(v. t.)
To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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