preoccupy
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively
His work preoccupies him
Types & categories
- control hypernym
- obsess hyponym
- prepossess hyponym
Related & opposite
- preoccupancy derivation
- preoccupation derivation
Sense 2 verb
occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance
the army preoccupied the hills
Types & categories
- take over hypernym
Related & opposite
- preoccupancy derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | preoccupancy |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | preoccupation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | control |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | obsess |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | prepossess |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | preoccupancy |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | take over |