Preoccupy
verb (used with object), preoccupied, preoccupying.
1.
to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.
2.
to occupy beforehand or before others.
verb (transitive) -pies, -pying, -pied
1.
to engross the thoughts or mind of
2.
to occupy before or in advance of another
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