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Definition of preoccupy:
Synonyms:
bewilder, absorb, disorient, discombobulate, awareness, control, divert, consume, engross, excite, immerse, monopolize, bamboozle, confuse, confound, command, distract.
Usage examples:
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This restlessness, however, was not only from lying stationary when he was unable to preoccupy himself from that pain and discomfort gained after his wife beat him with a frying pan, but also from his witnessing that horrific jump from the balcony and then Kimberly's mangled bloody corpse with missing arm, contorted neck, multi- lacerated face, and empty eye sockets along with the broken pieces of the metallic awning being extracted from the water of the swimming pool.
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It must not be forgotten that many warnings may so preoccupy the mind with regard to a danger as to constitute temptations by suggestion.
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And certainly he had enough to excite and preoccupy him just now.