Associations to the word «Engrossed»
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
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.