Engrossing

ahd-5
  • adjective. Occupying one's complete attention; wholly absorbing.
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  • adjective. capable of holding the attention completely; very interesting.
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  • verb. Present participle of engross
  • adjective. Utterly consuming of one's time and attention
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  • adjective. capable of arousing and holding the attention
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    "The best they could muster in the way of impeachment was the following: “However unwilling Mr. Morris may be to acknowledge the term engrossing or monopolizing, yet as he did not import the cargo, and did, in partnership with Mr. Sollekoff, get the whole into his possession, we are at a loss to find any other name, though the expedition with which he entered on the sale abates the rigorous sense generally applied to these words.”"
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    engross