All 3 Uses of
preoccupied
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.†
Chpt 2 *preoccupied = took up the attention of
- I prayed, as I walked back along the gray, lonely road, that my friend might soon be freed from his preoccupations and able to come down to take this heavy burden of responsibility from my shoulders.†
Chpt 7
- However, the man is fortunately rather deaf, and he was entirely preoccupied in that which he was doing.†
Chpt 9preoccupied = took up the attention of
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.