engrossed

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈɡɹoʊst/

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• Rhymes: -əʊst

engrossed

1. simple past and past participle of engross

engrossed (comparative more engrossed, superlative most engrossed)

1. Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 258:

     The large, soft dark eyes were raised, but seemed rather engrossed by their own feelings—(thoughts are scarcely tender enough for such a look)—than fixed upon any surrounding object.

2. Finalized, written in large letters. (of a document)

• grossened