Engross is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENGROSS in dictionary:

VERB:
• absorb all the attention or interest of
• gain or keep exclusive possession of
• produce (a legal document, especially a deed or statute) in its final form
• occupy the attention of (a person) completely
• To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
• To amass.
• To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment.
• To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.
• To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.
• devote (oneself) fully to
• consume all of one\'s attention or time
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to occupy completely

Words related to ENGROSS

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Words that contain ENGROSS

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How to use ENGROSS in a sentence

• Each month, each week brought fresh and increasing anxieties to engross all her thoughts.
• I have a very serious matter to talk with you upon, Nancy, when you are disposed to attend to matters within ourselves, and not let matters without ourselves wholly engross you.
• Enrica was not only to be gazed at and flattered, but to engross attention.
• This Point will engross our Thoughts till it be satisfied.
• The greatest portion of the population of this island consists of Chinese, who perform all the manual labour, and engross all the retail trade.
• An incident this evening impressed me with this truth, and I came home with a resolution that one source of them should no longer engross a moment of my time.
• His art had no power to amuse him or engross his thought.
• She does not engross the conversation, but is more eager to listen than to talk.
• This may seem a petty disappointment, in the midst of the overwhelming considerations that might have been expected to engross every thought of my mind.
• But neither history nor law have been so far able to engross this library, as to exclude physick, philosophy, or criticism.
• I invented all manner of methods to enhance the price of fish, and made use of my utmost endeavors to engross as much of the business as possible in my own hands.
• And, in fact, another matter soon came to engross her attention.
• Hamilton I had other thoughts to engross me, for Elspeth was dying, and we were standing together by her bedside.
• The one great object which now seemed to engross her mind was the recovery of Silesia.
• Politics should be quite sufficient to engross his time, and the money cannot be so much of an object to him.
• Surely, child, if there was but one man on earth who could please, you would not be so unreasonable as to engross him all to yourself.
• I would engross, I would employ, I would absorb, every faculty of that lovely mind.
• Where each man endeavours to engross several, the demand for the commodity, as a merchant would express it, is increased, and the price of course enhanced.
• In addition to his work at Sevres, quite enough to engross the entire energy of any ordinary man, he continued his more purely scientific work.
• Whatever other matters engross your time and attention, let your wife realize that she stands first and foremost in your thoughts and in your heart.
• A person of quality, by a single paper, may engross the honour of a volume.
• Family relations, particularly with the women, engross the whole amount of their sensibilities.
• No man ought to engage in any business which, as mere business, will engross all his time and attention.
• And so thoroughly did he engross their eyes and thoughts and words, that they had become unaware of my presence, or even my existence.
• The Duke, however, does not engross the whole trade, for the commerce being once regularly opened, may be carried on by any person who has property to barter.
• Politeness, however, requires that music, drawing, or any occupation which would completely engross the attention, be at once abandoned.
• She has conferred upon another that affection which I wished to engross.
• Extreme hunger seemed to engross the voracious animals, who darted at the imaginary prey with the rapidity of lightning.
• For the cabin was dark and stifling, and there was no leaving it, for both Miss Darpent and her attendant were so ill as to engross her entirely.
• It has power in itself to engross attention and at the same time may be easily diversified, so as to become a symbol for other things.
• It was rather fortunate, perhaps, that Win had another exciting thought to engross her attention at this time, though it was no more agreeable than the thought of Peter Rolls.
• This is the slow and thorny path, and on account of its very difficulty is apt to engross the thoughts and energy of the best brains which devote themselves to the cause.
• Thrale was very vexatious in wishing to engross all his attention, which annoyed him much.
• But to convince you that selfish feeling does not entirely engross me I shall remain in this town untill you have made by letter every arrangement that you judge necessary.
• Randolph would engross the entire conversation for an hour, when he would almost universally rise, bid good-night, and leave.

Similar words containing GROS without suffix s and without prefix en

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