occupy v
1. be present in; be inside of [syn: inhabit]
2. keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" [syn: busy]
3. live (in a certain place) [syn: reside, lodge in]
4. occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container" [syn: fill]
5. be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant" [syn: concern, interest, worry]
6. as of time or space; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" [syn: take, use up]
7. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" [syn: invade]
8. engage or engross wholly; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" [syn: absorb, engross, engage] [also: occupied]

Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Occupied; p. pr. & vb. n. Occupying.] [OE. occupien, F. occuper, fr.L. occupare; ob (see Ob-) + a word akin to capere to take. See Capacious.]
1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess. Woe occupieth the fine [/end] of our gladness. --Chaucer. The better apartments were already occupied. --W. Irving.
2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground. --Sir J. Herschel.
3. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy. An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six. --Eng. Statute (Hen. VIII. ) They occupied themselves about the Sabbath. --2 Macc. viii. 27.
4. To do business in; to busy one's self with. [Obs.] All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were

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