engross
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verb- 1.
(transitive)(transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
- 2.
(obsolete, transitive)(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
Đồng nghĩa: corner the market
- 3.
(transitive)To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
- 4.
(transitive)To completely engage the attention of; to involve.
She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.
Đồng nghĩa: enwrap, wrap
- 5.
(obsolete, transitive)To thicken; to condense.
Đồng nghĩa: inspissate, condense, engross, incrassate, inspissate, reduce, thick, thicken
- 6.
(obsolete, transitive)To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
- 7.
(obsolete)To amass.
Đồng nghĩa: amound, hoard, amass, amound, engross, get up, hoard, intreasure, niggard, packrat, rathole, squirrel away, uphoard
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From Middle English engrossen, from engrosser (to gather in large quantities, draft something in final form); partly from the phrase en gros (in bulk, in quantity, at wholesale), from en- + gros; and partly from ingrossō (thicken, write something large and in bold lettering), from in- + grossus (great, big, thick), from Old High German grōz (big, thick, coarse), from *graut, from Proto-Germanic *g…