Both Uses of
preoccupied
in
Pygmalion
- 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 1preoccupied = took up the attention of
- THE FLOWER GIRL [still preoccupied with her wounded feelings] He's no right to take away my character.†
Act 1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(preoccupied) busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, preoccupied can mean that someone has already inhabited or taken something.