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preoccupy English

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preoccupy Verb

— When you preoccupy someone, you try to distract the person. I preoccupied my son with a toy while I finish the work I was doing.

preoccupy

— verb 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 — verb occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance the army preoccupied the hills

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preoccupy English » English

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Conjugation preoccupy conjugation

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preoccupy · verb

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Movie subtitles

Preoccupy them all as you would children.
That is the world that the news reports. It is the world that adults preoccupy themselves with.
I needed to preoccupy them with a bomb to enable my escape.
Now, we've managed to preoccupy the cat lady for the next few hours.
So then preoccupy her with her charm.
And if it's 12:00 noon that's what you preoccupy yourself with.
You have not to preoccupy yourself with that.
Does that preoccupy it?
No, it swims so that it is necessary to preoccupy, Inspector-chief.
Get your head out of the rat race. and forget about the superficial things that preoccupy your existence. and get back to what's important now.
He has much to preoccupy him.
So then preoccupy her with your charm.
And do not preoccupy yourself with thoughts of escape, because for a prize such as you, sweet Susan.
Does that preoccupy it? Yes.
And when all else failed to preoccupy my mind, I would help Jake Rosati work on his grind.
The Holocaust doesn't appear to preoccupy the Communist authorities.

News and current affairs

They thought they were looking beyond the short-term demands that usually preoccupy political leaders.
But neither he, nor Tyndall, nor anyone in their distinguished audience could possibly have anticipated the extent to which the experiments' results would preoccupy the world 150 years later.
The issues that preoccupy health policymakers and practitioners in Lima, Cairo, Kolkata, and Jakarta reflect contrasting climates, geographies, histories, and cultures.
Domestic issues are likely to preoccupy Obama and his team at least up until the mid-term elections this November, thus precluding active diplomacy during the critical months ahead.

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