preoccupies
- present tense form of preoccupy (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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A newsvendor began to sing, and was joined in chorus— "Doctor Guillotin, That great médécin Love of human kind Preoccupies his mind."
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)