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Definition
busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done
- THE FLOWER GIRL [still preoccupied with her wounded feelings] He's no right to take away my character.Act 1 (71% in)
- They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily.Act 1 (2% in)
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