Usually means: Engage attention or thoughts fully.
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  1. preoccupy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. preoccupy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preoccupy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preoccupy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preoccupy: Vocabulary.com
  6. preoccupy: Wordnik
  7. preoccupy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. preoccupy: Wiktionary
  9. preoccupy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. preoccupy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. preoccupy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Preoccupy, preoccupy: Dictionary.com
  13. preoccupy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Preoccupy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. preoccupy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. preoccupy: Rhymezone
  17. Preoccupy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. preoccupy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. preoccupy: Free Dictionary
  20. preoccupy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. preoccupy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. preoccupy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. preoccupy: Legal dictionary

(Note: See preoccupied as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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