absorbed
/æbˈsɔɹbd/ adjective B2- Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed. · fully absorbed· deeply absorbed
- That has been taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated. · For quotations using this term, see Citations:absorbed.
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She had a good chance to do so, for the said Gilbert Blythe was absorbed in stealthily pinning the long yellow braid of Ruby Gillis, who sat in front of him, to the back of her seat.
While he had been absorbed in thought, they had shipped their oars and hoisted sail; the boat was now moving with the wind.
He was too much absorbed with his own thoughts to give any immediate answer to my remonstrance.
This mattered the less to her, as she was retiring by disposition, and very much absorbed, to all appearance, in her husband and her domestic duties.
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