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/priˈɑkjəpˌaɪ/ Listen

Preoccupy

verb

(past & past part. preoccupied; pres. part. preoccupying)

Engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively. "The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else"

Occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance.

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"Preoccupy" Quotes from Famous Books

... to launch France into a general war about the Eastern question. I fancy my father troubled his head little about these would-be-wise demonstrators, worthy forerunners of the Boulevard braggarts who, at a later date, in 1870, so appositely shouted "a Berlin." He had other matters to preoccupy him. The ease with which all the Governments in Europe had leagued themselves together, to inflict a moral check on France, under cover of the Pasha of Egypt, betrayed the latent hostility of all those powers to our own country. Let us say it outright. In the eyes of the European monarchies, ...

— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville

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