Definition of "engrossed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of engross. (in either sense) (verb)
• Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else. (adjective)
• Finalized, written in large letters. (adjective)

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• "Train has a 3-and-a-1/2 star rating on Amazon. com, with readers who say they were "completely engrossed from the opening line.""
• "Finished the new Wired yesterday -- in addition ot the already-mentioned-here Long Tail article, there were three other very noteworthy features that had me engrossed from the first graf:"
• "At first when I the first few words of this book, I was engrossed from the start."