See engross on Wiktionary
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"text": "Coordinate term: longhand"
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"ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Custom-house. Introductory to ‘The Scarlet Letter.’”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 34:",
"text": "This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present.",
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"ref": "1846, Thomas De Quincey, “On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine:",
"text": "laws that may be engrossed upon a finger nail",
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{
"ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:",
"text": "Wherefore Mr. Micawber […] set to work at the petition, invented it, engrossed it on an immense sheet of paper, spread it out on a table, and appointed a time for all the club, and all within the walls if they chose, to come up to his room and sign it.",
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"To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of."
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"(transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "piša s golemi bukvi",
"sense": "to write in large and clear script",
"word": "пиша с големи букви"
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"sense": "to write in large and clear script",
"word": "tekstata"
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"sense": "to write in large and clear script",
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"_dis1": "46 10 11 4 7 16 7",
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"roman": "čótkimi",
"sense": "to write in large and clear script",
"word": "писать крупными чёткими буквами"
},
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"sense": "to write in large and clear script",
"word": "писать набело"
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"To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.)."
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"(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.)."
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"word": "corner the market"
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"roman": "kupuvam na edro",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "купувам на едро"
},
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"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "kahmia"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "accaparer"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 86 3 2 3 2 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "rafler"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 86 3 2 3 2 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "s’emparer de"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 86 3 2 3 2 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "incettare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 86 3 2 3 2 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "acaparar"
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{
"_dis1": "2 86 3 2 3 2 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "arramblar"
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"_dis1": "2 86 3 2 3 2 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "apandar"
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"_dis1": "2 86 3 2 3 2 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to buy up wholesale",
"word": "alzarse con"
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"ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 7:",
"text": "After which time the Popes of Rome, engroſſing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fanſied not; […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The Coral Islands are principally visited by the pearl-shell fishermen, who arrive in small schooners, carrying not more than five or six men. For a long while the business was engrossed by Merenhout, the French Consul at Tahiti, but a Dutchman by birth, who, in one year, is said to have sent to France fifty thousand dollars' worth of shells.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin Books, published 2009, pages 125–126:",
"text": "Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army",
"type": "quote"
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],
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"To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly."
],
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"(transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly."
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"roman": "monopoliziram",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "монополизирам"
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"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "accaparer"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "monopoliser"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 82 3 3 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "truster"
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"_dis1": "3 3 82 3 3 3 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "accaparrare"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "monopolizirovatʹ",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "монополизировать"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "sobirátʹ",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "собира́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kopitʹ",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "копить"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 82 3 3 3 4",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "nakopljatʹ",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"tags": [
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"word": "накоплять"
},
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"_dis1": "3 3 82 3 3 3 4",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "acaparar"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to monopolize; to concentrate possession",
"word": "monopolizar"
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{
"text": "She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:",
"text": "Having made a few vain attempts at engrossing my attention in my book, I was obliged to let myself be carried away by the impetuous torrent of the squire's eloquence.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To completely engage the attention of; to involve."
],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To completely engage the attention of; to involve."
],
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zavladjavam",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "завладявам"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "absorbi"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "viedä kaikki huomio"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "syventyä"
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"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "captiver"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "passionner"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "fasciner"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "polariser"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "envoûter"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "ravir"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "charmer"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "capter"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "obnubiler"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "obséder"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "captare"
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"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Mandarin",
"roman": "quánshénguànzhù",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "全神贯注"
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"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uglubljatʹsja",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "углубляться"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uxodítʹ s golovoj",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "уходи́ть с головой"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "cautivar"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "captar"
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{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "hechizar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "arrobar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "encantar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "fascinar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 10 8 63 7 3 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "polarizar"
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{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13, page 447:",
"text": "As, when a foggy miſt hath ouercaſt / The face of heuen, and the cleare ayre engroſte, / The world in darkenes dwels, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To thicken; to condense."
],
"id": "en-engross-en-verb-f7ZEqxn~",
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"thicken"
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"(transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense."
],
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"word": "inspissate"
},
{
"word": "thicken"
}
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"transitive"
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{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 269:",
"text": "The waues thereof ſo ſlow and ſluggiſh were, / Engroſt with mud, which did them fowle agriſe, / That euery weighty thing they did vpbeare, / Ne ought mote euer ſinck downe to the bottom there.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:",
"text": "Not ſleeping to ingroſſe his idle body, / But praying to inrich his watchfull ſoule.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity."
],
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"obsolete",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "14 4 0 0 0 82 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "lihottaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 4 0 0 0 82 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "engraisser"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 4 0 0 0 82 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "ingrassare"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 4 0 0 0 82 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otkarmlivatʹ",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "откармливать"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 4 0 0 0 82 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "engordar"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 4 0 0 0 82 0",
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},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "fasciner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "polariser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "envoûter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "ravir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "charmer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "capter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "obnubiler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "obséder"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "captare"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Mandarin",
"roman": "quánshénguànzhù",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "全神贯注"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uglubljatʹsja",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "углубляться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uxodítʹ s golovoj",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "уходи́ть с головой"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "cautivar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "captar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "hechizar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "arrobar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "encantar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "fascinar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to engage completely",
"word": "polarizar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "lihottaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "engraisser"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "ingrassare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otkarmlivatʹ",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "откармливать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "engordar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "echar carnes"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make gross or fat",
"word": "engrosar"
}
],
"word": "engross"
}
Download raw JSONL data for engross meaning in All languages combined (17.2kB)
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"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": bukvami vs. pisatʹ",
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"title": "engross",
"trace": ""
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],
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"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": krupnymi vs. čótkimi",
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