| 单词 | occupy |
| 释义 | occupy (once / 41 pages) 1v 2v When you spend a lot of your free time reading tea leaves, you occupy yourself with that pastime, meaning it takes up your time and keeps you busy. An army can invade another country and occupy its territory, and this use of the word reflects its original Latin meaning, which was "to seize." There are also less aggressive forms of occupation, as with the family of chipmunks who occupy your garden. If you are the mayor of your town, you occupy an important office. And if you're a fan of Andy Warhol, a series of Campbell's soup can paintings may occupy a prominent place on your walls. WORD FAMILYoccupy: occupancy, occupant, occupation, occupied, occupier, occupies, occupying, preoccupy+/occupancy: occupancies/occupant: occupants/occupation: occupational, occupations/occupational: occupationally/occupied: occupiedly, unoccupied/occupier: occupiers/preoccupation: preoccupations/preoccupied: preoccupancy, preoccupiedly/preoccupy: preoccupation, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupying USAGE EXAMPLESSHILOH, West Bank — Through eight years of escalating criticism from the world’s most powerful leader, Israeli construction in these sacred, militarily occupied hills never stopped. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Israel’s main ally, for allowing the United Nations to censure his government over its controversial plans to build new settlements in the occupied West Bank. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Security Council resolution that the U.S. allowed to pass on Friday says that all of east Jerusalem is now occupied territory. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v live (in a certain place) he occupies two rooms on the top floor Syn|Hypo|Hyper lodge in, reside move in occupy a place stay atreside temporarily squatoccupy (a dwelling) illegally crashoccupy, usually uninvited dwell, inhabit, live, populate inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of 2v occupy the whole of Syn|Hypo|Hyper fill crowd fill or occupy to the point of overflowing take uptake up time or space be occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere 3v require (time or space) This event occupied a very short time Syn|Hypo|Hyper take, use up consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out use up (resources or materials) be spend or use time expend, use use up, consume fully 4v assume, as of positions or roles he occupies the position of manager the young prince will soon occupy the throne Syn|Hyper fill, take assume, strike, take, take up occupy or take on do work, work be employed 5v keep busy with Syn|Hypo|Hyper busy potter, putter work lightly dabble, play around, smatterwork with in an amateurish manner work exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity 6v consume all of one's attention or time Syn|Hypo|Hyper absorb, engage, engross involve occupy or engage the interest of consumeengage fully rivethold (someone's attention) interest excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of 7v be on the mind of 2Syn concern, interest, worry v march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation Syn|Hypo|Hyper invade infest, overrun invade in great numbers assail, attack launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with |
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