engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively
<verb.emotion> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
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sample sentences
"His work preoccupies him""The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else"
verb frames
Something ----s somebody
lexical pointers
derivationally related form