BUSYING Synonyms

• attracting or delighting

• capable of arousing and holding the attention

• thrust or throw into

• devote (oneself) fully to

• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

• cause to be immersed

• connect closely and often incriminatingly

• engage as a participant

• have as a necessary feature

• require as useful, just, or proper

• contain as a part

• occupy or engage the interest of

• make complex or intricate or complicated

• keep busy with

• live (in a certain place)

• occupy the whole of

• be on the mind of

• march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation

• require (time or space)

• consume all of one's attention or time

• assume, as of positions or roles

• engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively

• occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance

• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

• having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

• involved in military hostilities

• reserved in advance

• (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)

• (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting

• having services contracted for

• built against or attached to a wall

• pledged to be married

• annoyed and irritable

• overcrowded or cluttered with detail

• exacting especially about details

• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

• the act of altering something secretly or improperly

• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

• keep busy with

• live (in a certain place)

• occupy the whole of

• be on the mind of

• march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation

• require (time or space)

• consume all of one's attention or time

• assume, as of positions or roles

• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

• (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)

• currently being used