~ (with sth) thinking and/or worrying continuously about sth so that you do not pay attention to other things:
He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. * She seemed preoccupied all the time I was talking to her.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is preoccupied a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, preoccupied is tagged as adjective.
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