View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Preoccupy.
Preoccupy meaning
To distract; to draw attention elsewhere. | To worry or concern (someone) so as to distract them. | To occupy or take possession of beforehand.
Example sentences (6)
But none preoccupy Dr. Bajwa, 64, as much as the most common species, Culex pipiens, the northern house mosquito — the biggest source of West Nile infection in New York.
The contested legacy of the late Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's former president, will preoccupy historians and other scholars for years to come.
With so much to preoccupy us, we must also not forget the simultaneous environmental crisis of global heating.
And yet many of the arguments that preoccupy the British are haunted by the spectre of manufacturing.
This situation, which seems to preoccupy the attention of the Federal Government at the expense of other issues in the socio-political and economic spectra, appears increasingly problematic.
They may stick to inflexible routines, move in stereotyped and repetitive ways, preoccupy themselves with parts of objects or compulsive behaviors like lining thing up in patterns.