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# engrossed

«engrossed» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be so busy with it that you notice nothing else** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (engrossed); past form of verb engross (engross, engrosses, engrossed, engrossing)

### meaning for a pupil

To be engrossed in something is to be so busy with it that you notice nothing else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engrossed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

so deep in a task or thought that you forget everything around you

### examples

- He appeared to be altogether engrossed in his work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engrossed/#x1)
- The children were engrossed in the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engrossed/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «engrossed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engrossed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.