TAKEN UP Synonyms

• having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary

• made useful

• 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

• of purchase orders that have been filled

• (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with

• (of time) taken up

• having inhabitants; lived in

• held or filled or in use

• seized and controlled as by military invasion

• resided in; having tenants

• having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

• made useful

• have and control fully and exclusively

• have or exploit a monopoly of

• take hold of; grab

• take or capture by force

• take possession of by force, as after an invasion

• take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

• hook by a pull on the line

• affect

• capture the attention or imagination of

• having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

• showing emotional affliction or disquiet

• inhabited by or as if by apparitions

• having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

• influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion

• deeply absorbed in thought

• having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something