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præoccupate

præoccupate is the obsolete spelling of preoccupate.

Meaning of preoccupate

Verb

preoccupate (third-person singular simple present preoccupates, present participle preoccupating, simple past and past participle preoccupated)

  1. (obsolete) To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with.
    • the mad and fond curiositie of our nature, ammusing it selfe to preoccupate future things, as if it had not enough to doe to digest the present., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.40
  2. (obsolete) To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt.

Forms of præoccupate

third-person singular presentpræoccupates
present participlepræoccupating
past participlepræoccupated
pastpræoccupated

Questions about præoccupate

What is præoccupate the obsolete spelling of?
Præoccupate is the obsolete spelling of preoccupate.

Words near præoccupate in the dictionary

  1. præmunire
  2. præmunires
  3. præmunitory
  4. prænomen
  5. prænominal
  6. præoccupate
  7. præparation
  8. præparations
  9. præpare
  10. præpared
  11. præpares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præoccupate (page history and authors); preoccupate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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