preoccupy
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they preoccupy | |
| he / she / it preoccupies | |
| past simple preoccupied | |
| past participle preoccupied | |
| -ing form preoccupying |
- preoccupy somebody
if something is preoccupying you, you think or worry about it very often or all the time 使日夜思考；使忧心忡忡 Thoughts of failure preoccupied him. 失败的想法困扰着他。
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from pre- + occupy, suggested by Latin praeoccupare ‘seize beforehand’.