Usually means: Dominates or engrosses someone's thoughts.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word preoccupies:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. preoccupies: Merriam-Webster
  2. preoccupies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preoccupies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. preoccupies: Vocabulary.com
  5. preoccupies: Wordnik
  6. preoccupies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. preoccupies: Wiktionary
  8. preoccupies: Dictionary.com
  9. preoccupies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. preoccupies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preoccupies: Legal dictionary

(Note: See preoccupy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (preoccupy)

verb:  (transitive) To distract; to draw attention elsewhere.
verb:  (transitive) To worry or concern (someone) so as to distract them.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To occupy or take possession of beforehand.
▸ Also see preoccupy


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