Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of engross. (in either sense)
- adj. Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else.
- adj. of a document finalized, written in large letters.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document
- adj. giving or marked by complete attention to
Examples
“Train has a 3-and-a-1/2 star rating on Amazon. com, with readers who say they were "completely engrossed from the opening line.”
Barry Levinson Directing Adaptation of Pete Dexter's Train « FirstShowing.net
“Finished the new Wired yesterday -- in addition ot the already-mentioned-here Long Tail article, there were three other very noteworthy features that had me engrossed from the first graf:”
“At first when I the first few words of this book, I was engrossed from the start.”
“The original is in Latin, engrossed on rolls of parchment, and is in the office of the Secre - tary of the Commonwealth.”
Internet Archive: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
“The sunlight spilled over her shoulder and across the page, reflecting light on her face, her expression completely engrossed.”
“The original version of the Declaration was "engrossed" (a word for preparing an official document in a large, clear hand) on parchment (which is an animal skin, stretched and treated to preserve it).”
Kenneth C. Davis: Pursuing Happiness (Part 2) Declaration 101
“The Declaration was probably "engrossed" by Timothy Matlack, an assistant to Charles Thompson, the Secretary of the Continental Congress.”
Kenneth C. Davis: Pursuing Happiness (Part 2) Declaration 101
“The silly tutorials and goofy cast will keep children "engrossed" for hours.”
“But to Taranto, it's Cleland whose views on war we should ignore because after being "engrossed" by the war for three years, he has finally become so emotionally affected by the endless killings that he finds it difficult to read about it every day.”
“To the contrary, he's been to use Cleland's word "engrossed" by it -- as anyone who follows the news knows -- and only now feels himself, after 3 1/2 years of this war, wanting to avoid the grim news from Iraq because it's understandably causing him to re-live his own experiences in Vietnam.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘engrossed’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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1100 words you need to know
GRE words
voracious, indiscriminate, replete, steeped, eminent, perceive, intrepid, compound, automaton, reticent, interminable, drudgery and 288 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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List 1
the list of vocabularies from 1100 words you need to know Barron's.
conceded, eminent, prognosticate, indiscriminate, voracious, replete, abound, badger, drudgery, interminable, perceive, tinge and 248 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Favourites
wither, pallid, evanescent, enamour, discovery, smoky, tempest, pantheon, fatuous, revenant, aquatic, escapist and 92 more...
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double letters
metallurgy, immersed, engrossed, curriculum, syllabus, gemmary, saccade, rappelled, braggadocio, beletter, Armageddon, incurvariid
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