What is it about Harry Potter that so engrosses children?
Synonym
Meaning of engross in English
(Definition of engross from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of engross
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Experienced engineers have rapidly become engrossed with the possibilities of the approach and intrigued by some of the results when given access to hands-on experimentation.
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He was completely engrossed and serious about his every action, looking at the spot, carefully grasping it, raising his hand and then losing it.
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It is this process which leads to inventive energies being engrossed by a relatively limited set of problems.
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Thus, we may find ourselves having walked miles of city sidewalks or wooded paths almost blindly while engrossed in deep conversation with a friend.
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Unfortunately the era of cooperation was doomed as these two historically contemporary superpowers became engrossed in an increasingly lengthy series of campaigns for supremacy.
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It is in many ways an admirable, engrossing, and valuable collection, if also, from time to time, a tendentious one.
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One is engrossed in the conversation and one does not notice the drill.
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He possessed an engrossing strangeness that thrust him outside the human, an emptiness that made him seem at once animal and machine-like.
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The book is the author's engrossing account of his time spent doing this.
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Even if a corporation agreed a new charter was desirable, it could take months to complete the work of negotiating and engrossing the final document.
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When necessary, she elaborates and amplifies from her own research so that her portrait of former times is rich and engrossing.
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Absorption or imaginative involvement implies becoming so engrossed in an activity that you are completely unaware of your surroundings.
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Four days later the lord chancellor reported the measure with certain amendments which received two readings and the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
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Conspiracy to restrain and monopolize trade was a criminal offense at common law when violence or intimidation was employed to suppress competition and engross the market.
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The insistence on the gentlemanly status of the figures is maintained since they are shown standing, engrossed in thought or conversing rather than at work, dirtying their hands.
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