Definitions of preoccupy [ˈɒk yəˌpaɪ]

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Definition of 'preoccupy'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) preoccupy
to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.

2. preoccupy
to occupy beforehand or before others.

Etymology: (1560–70; < L

Definition of 'preoccupy'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) preoccupy
engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively
"His work preoccupies him"; "The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else"

2. (verb) preoccupy
occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance
"the army preoccupied the hills"

Definition of 'preoccupy'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) preoccupy
to take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held

2. (verb) preoccupy
to prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice

Translation of 'preoccupy'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to engage or occupy (a person's mind etc) or the attention of (someone) completely His mind was preoccupied with plans for his holiday.
Afrikaans: in beslag neem	Arabic: يَشْغَل بال	Bulgarian: занимавам
Brazilian: preocupar	Czech: být zaujat	German: völlig in Anspruch nehmen
Danish: optage	Greek: απασχολώ, απορροφώ	Spanish: preocupar
Estonian: (tähelepanu) hõivama	Farsi: فکر و ذهن را به خود مشغول	Finnish: vallata ajatukset
French: préoccuper	Hebrew: לְהַטרִיד	Hindi: पूर्व रूपेण ध्यान आकर्षित
Croatian: zaokupiti, preokupirati	Hungarian: figyelmét egészen leköti	Indonesian: sibuk, memenuhi perhatian
Icelandic: gagntaka	Italian: impensierire	Japanese: ～の心を奪う
Korean: 심취하다	Lithuanian: užimti, užvaldyti	Latvian: nodarbināt prātu; saistīt
Malay: membuat sso sibuk	Dutch: geheel in beslag nemen	Norwegian: distrahere, legge beslag
Polish: zaabsorbować	Persian: فکر و ذهن را به خود مشغول	Pashto: پام او ذهن خپل ځان ته راړ
Portuguese: preocupar	Romanian: a preocupa	Russian: поглощать внимание
Slovak: byť zaujatý (čím)	Slovenian: zaposlovati, obremenjevat	Serbian: zakupiti
Swedish: helt sysselsätta (uppta)	Thai: ครอบครองก่อน	Turkish: kafasını kurcalamak, zihn
Taiwanese: 使對...全神貫注，迷住，搶先佔有	Ukrainian: займати	Urdu: توجہ بانٹنا
Vietnamese: ám ảnh	Chinese: 使对...全神贯注，迷住，先占
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