Crossword-Solution: PREOCCUPY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preoccupy | v. t. | To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held. |
| Preoccupy | v. t. | To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PREOCCUPY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| His work preoccupies him | 1 answer |
| fill the thoughts or attention of (someone) to the exclusion of other things | 1 answer |
| Obsess | 17 answers |
| Possess | 26 answers |
| Engross | 29 answers |
| Engage | 47 answers |
| Tease | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
TERELOC
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with PREOCCUPY (5)
Prudence now came but rarely; but she often wrote letters which I never asked to see, though, every time they came, they seemed to preoccupy Marguerite deeply.
She isn’t able to get to see them outside, therefore she has to see them inside.” “They are only one, and always the same one.” “Are you sure?” “An examination of the marks on the wall and on the pipe doesn’t leave any doubt of it, and it is always the same grappling-iron that is used for the window.” “The viper!” “Monsieur Koupriane, Mademoiselle Natacha seems to preoccupy you exceedingly.
Pickwick and the Ancient Mariner are valued friends of ours, but they do not preoccupy us like Edwin Drood or Kubla Khan.
For as men are not wont to put bridles on their horses when they are running in full speed, but bring them bridled beforehand to the race; so do they use to preoccupy and predispose the minds of those persons with rational considerations to enable them to encounter passion, whom they perceive to be too mettlesome and unmanageable upon the sight of provoking objects.
Your rival is, with a dutiful and serious care, lying in his bed, meditating how to observe his mistress, dispatcheth his lacquey to the chamber early, to know what her colours are for the day, with purpose to apply his wear that day accordingly: you lay wait before, preoccupy the chamber-maid, corrupt her to return false colours; he follows the fallacy, comes out accoutred to his believed instructions; your mistress smiles, and you give him the dor.
Quotes with PREOCCUPY (3)
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
o not preoccupy yourself with wants or expectations. The world won't abide by the standards, you set in any case, whether you set them too low or too high. It will break them every time for the simple fact that our true essence has no desire, hope or expectation for anything. It has no selfish inclinations of any kind. Everything, it experiences, is a passing phase, not its real identity.
The things that preoccupy our minds can help us achieve a long term goal if we have an intention to fulfill our dreams.