Engross

Definitions: Engross

Engross

Verb

1. Engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his studies".

2. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter".

3. Engage or engross wholly; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "engross" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Note: Engross \En*gross"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Engrossed; present participle verb or noun Engrossing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Engross

Attention

Catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention, awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention, engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind, catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts, absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be uppermost in the mind.

Possession

Engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate, impropriate, have all to oneself; corner; have a firmhold of; (retain); get into one's hand; (acquire).

Thought

Make an impression; sink into the mind, penetrate into the mind; engross the thoughts.

Writing

Verb: write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down; (record); sign; (attest); enface.

Crosswords: Engross

Expression using "engross": engross the thoughts. Additional references.

Albanian

thëthij (drink in, exhaust, inhale, suck), shkruaj me germa të mëdha (capitalize), pushtoj (carry, conquer, creep over, enfold, envelop, fold, hog, invade, jump, obsess, overcome, overreach, overrun, overtake, overwhelm, pervade, possess, reach, reduce, reign, rush back, seize, smite, straddle, sweep, take, take a fancy to, take possession of), gëlltit (absorb, consume, engorge, engulf, ingest, ingulf, ingurgitate, Raven, soak up, sup, swallow, swallow up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسخ (copy, countermand, duplication, mimeograph, reduplicate, reproduce, reproduction, supersede, transcribe, transcription), ‏غرق في الكتاب, ‏إستغرق (absorb, cover, enwrap, occupy, sink, take up, wrap), ‏إشترى بمقادير ضخمة, ‏أعد (activate, dish, dispose, draft, dress, engage, fit, get smb. working, pass, plan, put up, ready). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съставям документ, завладявам (carry, conquer, devour, engage, force, invade, obsess, overcome, overreach, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, seize, take over, take possession of), поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take down, take in, take over, whelm). (various references)

Chinese 

大字书写 (Engrossed, Engrossing). (various references)

Czech

upoutat na sebe pozornost (make oneself conspicuous). (various references)

Dutch

een grosse opmaken (to engross), grosseren (to engross). (various references)

Farsi 

مجذوب (Rapt, Spellbound), مشغول (At, Busy), جلب کردن (Atone, Attract, Catch, Entice, Have, Solicit), احتکارکردن (Hoard, Speculate), اشغال کردن (Occupy), درشت نوشتن . (various references)

Finnish

laatia ensimmäinen ote virallisesta asiakirjasta tai tuomiosta (to engross). (various references)

French

s'absorber, préparer (enable, engage), grossoyer (to engross), captiver (enthral), absorber (enwrap), être plongé dans un livre. (various references)

German

in anspruch nehmen (claim, consume, engage, enlist, occupy, preoccupy, take, take advantage of), gefangennehmen (arrest, captivate, capture, take captive, take prisoner), fesseln (attract, bind, bind up, bonds, chain up, chains, enchain, engage, enthrall, fascinate, fetter, fetters, grip, handcuff, lashing, manacle, mesmerize, rivet, shackle, slaving, thrill, tie down, tie up, to attract, to captivate, to enchain, to fetter, to shackle, to trammel, trammel). (various references)

Greek 

απορροφώ (absorb, imbibe, mop, occlude, soak up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכתוב באותיות �'�"ולות (capitalize). (various references)

Hungarian

elfoglal (occupy, overrun, to annex, to carry, to occupy, to seize), letisztáz (fair copy, make a clean copy, to engross, to write out, write out). (various references)

Indonesian

mengasyikkan (absorbing, fascinate, preoccupy). (various references)

Italian

redigere (compile, draw up, edit, indite, redact, write), copiare (charge off, copy, crib, depreciate, to copy), assorbire (absorb, adsorb, assimilate, blot, imbibe, merge, preoccupy, soak up, sop up, sponge, suck). (various references)

Pig Latin

engrossay

Portuguese

especular (profiteer, specular, speculate), ocupar (beset, engage, exercise, fill, occupy, take), monopolizar (corner, monopolize), gravura (carving, cut, engrave, engraving, etching, illustrative, image, impression, picture, print), absorver (absorb, absorbing, adsorb, assimilate, drink away, engorge, imbibe, impregnate, occlude, occupy, sip, soak, soak up, swallow), açambarcar (appropriate, corner, monopolize, monopoly, to buy up, to corner). (various references)

Romanian

monopoliza (monopolize), captiva (captivate, charm, engage, ensnare, fascinate, subjugate, win), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop), absorbi (absorb, aspirate, captivate, engage, fascinate, imbibe, inhale, soak, sponge, suck). (various references)

Russian 

монополизировать (monopolize), завладевать (engage), писать крупными буквами. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaokupiti (preoccupy, prepossess), obuzeti (come over, consume, grip, obsess, overcome, possess, preoccupy, prepossess, smite). (various references)

Spanish

copiar (borrow, calk, copy, copy-machine, duplicate, lift, print, to copy, write out), absorber (absorb, absorber, drink in, lap up, occlude, preoccupy, soak up, sop up, suck in, take up). (various references)

Swedish

texta (print, subtitle, write in texthand). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้จ�"จ่อ, กว้านซื้อทั้งหม�"เพื่อผูกขา�", คั�"ลอกเอกสารโ�"ยการเขียน�"้วยตัวหนังสือตัวใหญ่และชั�"เจน. (various references)

Turkish

temize çekmek, tekeline almak (monopolize, sew up), resmi dille yazmak, hazırlamak (arrange, coach, concoct, equip, formulate, groom, knock up, lay, lay out, make ready, prepare, set, set by, stage, work up), dikkatini vermek (attend, concentrate, glue, settle down to, zero in on), dalmak (barge, bathe, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, bounce, break, break into, conk, contemplate, cut into, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, groove, jut into, lose oneself in, meditate, muse, nip in, pitch into, plummet, plunge, pore, pore over, rush in, rush into, sail in, sink, sink into), cezbetmek (attract, bait, beguile, captivate, catch, charm, draw on, fascinate, fetch, hypnotize, lure, magnetize, prepossess, wile), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

Ukranian 

оволодівати (acquire, master, overwhelm), переписувати начисто. (various references)

absorbeo. (various references)

en gros. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "engross": engrossed, engrosser, engrossers, engrosses, engrossing, engrossingly, engrossment, engrossments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Engross" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ebgross, encross, engress, engrosse, engrous, kengroms, Negresco. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: genros, gnoses, goners, gorses, ogress, segnos, senors, sensor, snores.

-2 letters: genro, gesso, goers, goner, gores, gorse, gross, noses, ogres, roses, segno, segos, senor, snogs, snore, sones, songs, sores, sorns.

-3 letters: egos, engs, eons, ergo, ergs, erns, eros, gens, goer, goes, gone, gore, ness, noes, nogs, nose, ogre, ones, ores, oses, regs, roes, rose, sego, segs, sers, snog, sone, song, sons, sore, sorn.

-4 letters: ego, eng, ens, eon, erg, ern, ers, ess, gen, gor, gos, nog, nor, nos, oes, one, ons, ore, ors, ose, reg, res, roe, seg, sen, ser, son, sos.

-5 letters: en, er, es, go, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, so.

+1 letter: congress, goriness, songster, spongers, surgeons.

+2 letters: cosigners, egression, engrossed, engrosser, engrosses, estragons, estrogens, governess, grossness, organises, prognoses, roughness, scrounges, seigniors, signories, songsters, strongest, sturgeons, wrongness.

+3 letters: aggression, boringness, congressed, congresses, digression, egressions, engrossers, engrossing, goosanders, gorinesses, governessy, granuloses, grogginess, groundless, groundsels, growliness, ingression, lemongrass, misgoverns, newsgroups, nonsigners, noseguards, oppressing, organisers, orogeneses, orogenesis, overswings, oysterings, parsonages, personages, processing, professing, progestins, reasonings, recognises, recrossing, reglossing, regression, ringtosses, sandgrouse, sclerosing, scroungers, seignories, shoestring, signiories, sloganeers, songstress, sovereigns, strongyles, subregions, youngsters.

+4 letters: aggressions, anagnorises, angiosperms, compressing, congressing, congressman, congressmen, constringes, cradlesongs, designators, digressions, engrossment, ergonomists, fingerposts, fishmongers, folksingers, foreignisms, foreignness, forgiveness, fortressing, fosterlings, gasconaders, gastronomes, gormandises, governesses, gravestones, greenhouses, greenstones, grindstones, grossnesses, grouchiness, growthiness, gymnosperms, hotpressing, ignoramuses, ingressions, ingrownness, knotgrasses, lobsterings, newsmongers, outdressing, outpressing, overdesigns, overissuing, overpassing, oversudsing, progressing, progression, reassorting, redisposing, refocussing, regressions, reseasoning, roguishness, rosemalings, roughnesses, sandgrouses, scroungiest, seigniories, seignorages, serpiginous, shoestrings, shortenings, shotgunners, signatories, soldierings, somerseting, songwriters, spongewares, sporogenous, sporogonies, springhouse, strongboxes, superposing, superstrong, surgeonfish, topdressing, wrongnesses.

+5 letters: androgeneses, androgenesis, boringnesses, coprocessing, countersigns, cryosurgeons, digressional, disorganizes, droughtiness, egocentrisms, engrossingly, engrossments, gangsterdoms, gastronomies, generosities, generousness, gloriousness, gorgeousness, gossipmonger, gourmandises, graciousness, grievousness, grogginesses, groundfishes, groundlessly, groundmasses, groundsheets, groundswells, growlinesses, gruesomeness, hornswoggles, horseshoeing, hydrogenases, ignorantness, lemongrasses, necrologists, neurologists, nitrogenases, orthogeneses, orthogenesis, overcastings, overdressing, petrogeneses, petrogenesis, predisposing, prefocussing, presupposing, progestogens, progressions, redigestions, redissolving, regionalisms, regionalists, religionists, religionless, repossessing, reprocessing, resignations, rigorousness, scaremongers, scuppernongs, segregations, seigniorages, shortchanges, snollygoster, somersetting, songstresses, sonographers, sonographies, sporogeneses, sporogenesis, springhouses, stringcourse, supersurgeon, testcrossing, thoroughness, togetherness, topdressings, transgressor, trypsinogens, vigorousness, wrongfulness.

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