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Occupied   /ˈɑkjəpˌaɪd/   Listen
Occupied

adjective
1.
Held or filled or in use.  "The wc is occupied"
2.
Seized and controlled as by military invasion.
3.
Resided in; having tenants.  Synonym: tenanted.
4.
Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged.  Synonym: engaged.  "Deeply engaged in conversation"


Occupy

verb
(past & past part. occupied; pres. part. occupying)
1.
Keep busy with.  Synonym: busy.
2.
Live (in a certain place).  Synonyms: lodge in, reside.  "He occupies two rooms on the top floor"
3.
Occupy the whole of.  Synonym: fill.
4.
Be on the mind of.  Synonyms: concern, interest, worry.
5.
March aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation.  Synonym: invade.
6.
Require (time or space).  Synonyms: take, use up.  "This event occupied a very short time"
7.
Consume all of one's attention or time.  Synonyms: absorb, engage, engross.
8.
Assume, as of positions or roles.  Synonyms: fill, take.  "He occupies the position of manager" , "The young prince will soon occupy the throne"



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"Occupied" Quotes from Famous Books



... I am named, fierce I shall prove to thee; towards giantesses I am most hostile. The humid prow I have oft occupied, and the night-riders slain. ...
— The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson • Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
... never been able to prison him in her arms. Now that this girl had expressed its architectural quality in a phrase, the sight of it would cause amusement and not, as it had done before, anger that a woman of such quality should have occupied the place that by right belonged to her. That secondary and injurious emotion would now disappear, and far from remembering what Ellen had said, and how young and pretty and funny she had looked when she said it, she would ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... wiped his eyes, that were full of tears, and did not mind that his trousers got wet green spots from kneeling on the ground, and that chance passers-by would be greatly surprised to see Herr Paul Schlieben occupied in that manner. He, too, found it fun now to keep up a fire for roasting potatoes under the pale, blue autumn sky, in which the white clouds were scudding along and the twittering swallows flying. He had never known such a thing—he had ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... diocese of Lucon. He wished to set Albert de Luynes at rest as to his presence at the court of Mary de' Medici, the devotion he showed her, and the counsels he gave her. He had but small success, however. The new favorite was suspicious and anxious. Richelieu appeared to be occupied with nothing but the duties of his office; he presided at conferences; and he published, against the Protestants, a treatise entitled The Complete Christian (De la Perfection du Chretien). Luynes was not disposed to believe ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank. He had a healthy colour in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens


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