Preoccupy: alternatives and connections

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit;…

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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

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To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

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To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp…

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The spirit; the soul of man.

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To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.

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To besiege; to beset.

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To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.

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The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the…

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The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the…

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The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.

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The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.

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The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

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The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

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