Associations to the word «Preoccupy»

Wiktionary

PREOCCUPY, verb. To distract; to occupy or draw attention elsewhere.

Dictionary definition

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".
PREOCCUPY, verb. Occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance; "the army preoccupied the hills".

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis