Associations to the word «Engross»
Noun
- Expiration
- Attention
- Superiority
- Conversation
- Express
- Fifty
- Freeman
- Share
- Capitol
- Forty
- Discourse
- Passion
- Clerk
- Declaration
- Supper
- Anxiety
- Commerce
- Excitement
- Thought
- Burden
- Mind
- Prospect
- Expense
- Violation
- Employ
- Contest
- Happiness
- Imagination
- Notice
- Whole
- Perhaps
- Bringing
- Jurisdiction
- Legislature
- Revenge
- Circumstance
- Regard
- Er
- Legislation
- Instruction
- Subject
- Nation
- Maryland
- Keeping
- Fortune
- Dinner
- Object
- Care
- Quarter
- Manner
- Matter
- Possession
- Pleasure
- Talk
- Majority
- Slave
- Phase
- Energy
- Occasion
- Heart
- Faculty
- All
- Creature
- Power
- Lady
Wiktionary
ENGROSS, verb. (transitive) (now legal) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
ENGROSS, verb. (transitive) (business) (obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
ENGROSS, verb. (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
ENGROSS, verb. (transitive) To completely engage the attention of.
ENGROSS, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
ENGROSS, verb. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
ENGROSS, verb. (obsolete) To amass.
Dictionary definition
ENGROSS, verb. Devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies".
ENGROSS, verb. Consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.