(v. t.) To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.
(v. t.) To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.
Example Sentences:
(1) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
(2) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
(3) Alcohol abusers describe themselves as less warm, kind, gentle, and emotionally expressive than their classmates, and were more preoccupied with themes of power in spontaneous fantasy productions.
(4) Some journalists have read it as yet another sign that Merkel has lost interest in domestic politics and is preoccupied with challenges on the global stage.
(5) Our research has found that leaders are preoccupied with change within their own departments and they struggle to work effectively across boundaries even when there are clearly shared interests.
(6) Despite more pronounced somatic complaints, women view their psychological situation more positively than men; they are more optimistic, less anxious, less depressed, and less preoccupied with their illness and its consequences.
(7) While Syria , migration and Russia are preoccupying western governments, Israel and Palestine have been largely left to their own devices.
(8) While a US presidential visit would normally be expected to command the lion's share of attention in South Korea, the country remains preoccupied with the misery wrought by the sinking of the passenger ferry.
(9) It is more important to understand this now than ever before, because never before have we been so preoccupied with social and economic issues: a preoccupation that is threatening to divert our attention from the main determinants of our specialty's future viability--the acquisition and application of new knowledge.
(10) The effects of regular aerobic exercise are important to an aging society increasingly preoccupied with exercise.
(11) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
(12) Republicans accused the administration of putting out the update at a time when Washington was preoccupied with the pope’s visit.
(13) Dying and death have scarcely before our time preoccupied so many.
(14) Part of Putin's brain is transplanted into Berlusconi's head, turning him into a confused, Russian-speaking, vodka-drinking man, preoccupied with men stuck in a submarine.
(15) Nineteen of the 100 veterans had made a postservice suicide attempt, and 15 more had been preoccupied with suicide since the war.
(16) On the basis of interviews and printed primary sources, the paper argues that Treasury officials made a less than rigorous assessment of the impact of cafeteria plans because they were preoccupied with a larger agenda of making tax-free benefits more equitable.
(17) He says that while he and I would never dream of failing to acknowledge our own children, he believes Turner was too preoccupied to think about them.
(18) Women had less to say and seemed less familiar with the discourse on bonding, and were less preoccupied with the establishment of close mother-infant relationship.
(19) But I’ll have a chicken curry afterwards.” However, Richard seemed more preoccupied with deciding what to call Morrissey.
(20) In their attempts to explain observed patterns in population dynamics and community structure, ecologists have, until recently, been preoccupied with the effects of predation and competition.
Reoccupy
Definition:
(v. t.) To occupy again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tony Blair has insisted that Labour can recover from its disastrous general election defeat only if it reoccupies the centre ground of British politics, proudly championing a pro-business agenda and bold new ideas to reform public services.
(2) The protesters did not attempt to reoccupy roads and no violence was reported.
(3) 3.11pm GMT Harriet Salem, reporting from the Guardian, just told me that pro-Russia protesters have reoccupied the regional government building in Donetsk that was taken back by police earlier today (the pro-Russia protesters having originally occupied it on Monday.
(4) A faster rate of spread into woven bone appears to be the major cause of higher bone uptake of 99mTc(Sn)MDP in thalassemic subjects, which suggests that in these patients bone tissue reoccupies the space previously replaced by hyperplastic marrow.
(5) The free postsynaptic differentiations are reoccupied predominantly by boutons containing pleiomorphic vesicles and which are for the most part gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic, thus forming heterologous synapses; less frequently these sites are occupied by boutons of the ipsilateral visual contingent to form homologous synapses.
(6) Hong Kong will never be the same again.” Hundreds of police guarded the expressway running past Hong Kong’s government headquarters to prevent protesters from reoccupying an area they turned into a sprawling campsite for more than two months last year.
(7) Iraq’s Sunni minority have long felt alienated by the country’s Shia-led government in Baghdad, and it is Shia-dominated government forces who will reoccupy the city.
(8) Far from being a gradual process, in which men and women slowly reoccupied territory that had been taken from them by spreading glaciers, the resettling of Britain now appears to have been rapid, dramatic and bloody.
(9) He predicted that the national shop vacancy rate will rise to an all-time high of nearly 20% if all the stores belonging to collapsed retailers are not reoccupied.
(10) Incubated eggs and newly hatched chicks were left unattended and the area was not reoccupied in 1974.
(11) In zinc-iodide-osmium (ZIO) stained preparations, muscle fibers with small nerve terminals were present at 60 d and were still present in old muscle at 120 d. Fluorescent staining of nerve terminals and acetylcholine receptors revealed that in young muscle, postsynaptic sites were nearly or completely reoccupied by 60 d. In old muscle, about 22% of former junctions were denervated, with the remainder minimally to fully reinnervated.
(12) Thus, unlike after partial denervation only, motoneurons were unable to maintain their large neonatal territory when the muscle was temporarily paralysed and they were unable to reoccupy this territory after the muscles recovered from the paralysis.
(13) Resaturation of uncovered receptors has been studied by reincubating cells in normal medium; within 40 min, 50% of the free sites are reoccupied.
(14) The ring was probably found in 1785 by a farmer ploughing a few miles away within the walls of Silchester , one of the most enigmatic Roman sites in the country – a town which flourished before the Roman invasion, was abandoned by the 7th century and was never reoccupied.
(15) Gn-RH stimulated [32P]phosphate incorporation into phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns), which could be terminated by displacement of previously bound Gn-RH from its receptor by antide and restarted by reoccupying the receptors with Gn-RH.
(16) As the result of the K+ in equilibrium Hi+ ion exchange at the histamine binding sites of the release pool, these sites become transiently occupied by K+ ions only to be immediately reoccupied by Hi+ ions from the donor pool.
(17) Demonstrators also reoccupied government buildings evacuated earlier in the week.
(18) Synaptic boutons on the surface of identified autonomic ganglion cells were visualized by methylene blue staining at intervals of 1-2 months following denervation to assess whether regenerating axon terminals reoccupy original synaptic sites.
(19) Tony Blair had warned that Labour could recover only if it reoccupied the centre ground of British politics and his close ally Lord Mandelson said that Labour needed once again to champion the aspirational classes.
(20) Chris Patten, EU external relations commissioner when Israel reoccupied the West Bank after suicide bombings in 2002, used to attack the US as the "Washington branch of the Likud".