engross

engross

englanti
  1. kuva temmata mukaansa

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engross

vallata, vallata kokonaan, vaatia kokonaan, täyttää jkn päivät, viedä kaikki huomio, koskea, liikuttaa, kuluttaa, uppoutua, syventyä, hautautua, upottaa, viedä syvälle, keskittyä, kiinnittää tarkkaavaisuutensa, keskittää huomionsa, kohdistaa huomionsa, kiinnostaa.

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Englannin sanakirja

engross (englanti > suomi)

  1. tekstata

  2. kahmia

  3. viedä kaikki huomio, syventyä

  4. lihottaa

engross englanniksi

  1. (senseid)puhekieltä To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne

  3. some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
  4. De Quincey

  5. laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
  6. puhekieltä To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

  7. puhekieltä To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

  8. 1644, (w), Aeropagitica:

  9. 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 fancied not (..)
  10. 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:

  11. 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.
  12. puhekieltä To completely engage the attention of.

  13. She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.

  14. puhekieltä To thicken; to condense.

  15. 1590, (w), The Faerie Queene, III.4:

  16. As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste, / The world in darkenes dwels (..)
  17. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

  18. Spenser

  19. waves (..) engrossed with mud
  20. Shakespeare

  21. not sleeping, to engross his idle body
  22. puhekieltä To amass.

  23. to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf

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