PREOCCUPATES Synonyms

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• serve oneself to, or consume regularly

• spend extravagantly

• destroy completely

• use up (resources or materials)

• engage fully

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• be in control

• have dominance or the power to defeat over

• be greater in significance than

• look down on

• devote (oneself) fully to

• consume all of one's attention or time

• a quantity sufficient to satisfy

• any material that fills a space or container

• make full, also in a metaphorical sense

• become full

• occupy the whole of

• assume, as of positions or roles

• fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction

• appoint someone to (a position or a job)

• eat until one is sated

• fill to satisfaction

• plug with a substance

• the act of grasping

• the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

• a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes

• the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)

• worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made

• an intellectual hold or understanding

• a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place

• hold fast or firmly

• to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match

• to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe

• have and control fully and exclusively

• have or exploit a monopoly of

• haunt like a ghost; pursue

• be preoccupied with something

• 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