absorb(INTEREST VERY MUCH)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people excited and interested
absorbed
animate
arouse someone's curiosity
be someone's bagidiom
bedazzle
breathe
intoxicate
intrigue
occupy
overexcite
overstimulate
stir
stretch
sweep
sweep someone along
talk something up
tantalize
the Thames
thrill
whip

Examples of engross

engross
Experienced engineers have rapidly become engrossed with the possibilities of the approach and intrigued by some of the results when given access to hands-on experimentation.
He was completely engrossed and serious about his every action, looking at the spot, carefully grasping it, raising his hand and then losing it.
It is this process which leads to inventive energies being engrossed by a relatively limited set of problems.
Thus, we may find ourselves having walked miles of city sidewalks or wooded paths almost blindly while engrossed in deep conversation with a friend.
Unfortunately the era of cooperation was doomed as these two historically contemporary superpowers became engrossed in an increasingly lengthy series of campaigns for supremacy.
It is in many ways an admirable, engrossing, and valuable collection, if also, from time to time, a tendentious one.
One is engrossed in the conversation and one does not notice the drill.
He possessed an engrossing strangeness that thrust him outside the human, an emptiness that made him seem at once animal and machine-like.
The book is the author's engrossing account of his time spent doing this.
Even if a corporation agreed a new charter was desirable, it could take months to complete the work of negotiating and engrossing the final document.
When necessary, she elaborates and amplifies from her own research so that her portrait of former times is rich and engrossing.
Absorption or imaginative involvement implies becoming so engrossed in an activity that you are completely unaware of your surroundings.
Four days later the lord chancellor reported the measure with certain amendments which received two readings and the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
Conspiracy to restrain and monopolize trade was a criminal offense at common law when violence or intimidation was employed to suppress competition and engross the market.
The insistence on the gentlemanly status of the figures is maintained since they are shown standing, engrossed in thought or conversing rather than at work, dirtying their hands.
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