verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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She'd been so engrossed that she hadn't heard him come in.
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She says she usually gets so engrossed that she doesn't hear conversations anywhere near her.
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The spawning fish are usually so engrossed in their own activities that will hardly notice the flash going off.
■ NOUN
conversation
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He was seemingly engrossed in conversation , although she couldn't see with whom because of the milling crowd round the doorway.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The murder trial had engrossed the small northern Ohio city for months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both these areas of the mind grow rapidly and engross a person's thoughts.
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Fifty years later, it provides a remarkably smooth and engrossing ride to its tragic destination.
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I was constantly engrossed by the problems of time, space, quality, and the other categories of reason.
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Mattie grunted abstractedly, totally engrossed in peering at the various plastic containers and bowls in the refrigerator.
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She'd been so engrossed that she hadn't heard him come in.
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She waved, but Dawn didn't see her, being too engrossed in stuffing the flowers into a large carrier bag.
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Then, discarding me like a broken toy, they clustered around Fred Kowalski, engrossed in baseball cards.
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They want to be engrossed by your speech; they want the occasion to be a success.