All 3 Uses
preoccupied
in
Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
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- And the minute I was sure she was good and preoccupied, I tugged on her sleeve and asked, "Now?"†
p. 12.8preoccupied = took up the attention of
- Sure, we'd both been at school, but I'd been so preoccupied with other things that I hadn't really seen him.†
p. 77.8
- After class Darla tried to act all cool and preoccupied, but she had her radar up and pointed our way.†
p. 126.3 *
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) Much more rarely, preoccupied can mean that someone has already inhabited or taken something.