[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

engross \engross"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. engrossed; p. pr. 
   vb. n. engrossing. f., fr. pref. en- l. in + gros
   gross, grosse, n., an engrossed document: cf. of. engrossir,
   engroissier, to make thick, large, or gross. see gross.
   1. to make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in
      bulk or quantity. obs.
      1913 webster

            waves . . . engrossed with mud.       --spenser.
      1913 webster

            not sleeping, to engross his idle body. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to amass. obs.
      1913 webster

            to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to copy or write in a large hand en gross, i. e., in
      large; to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible
      characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on
      parchment.
      1913 webster

            some period long past, when clerks engrossed their
            stiff and formal chirography on more substantial
            materials.                            --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

            laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. --de
                                                  quincey.
      1913 webster

   4. to seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy the
      attention completely; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed
      all his thoughts.
      1913 webster

   5. to purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for
      the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit;
      hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or
      degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross
      power.
      1913 webster

   engrossed bill legislation, one which has been plainly
      engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments,
      preparatory to final action on its passage.

   engrossing hand penmanship, a fair, round style of
      writing suitable for engrossing legal documents,
      legislative bills, etc.

   syn: to absorb; swallow up; imbibe; consume; exhaust; occupy;
        forestall; monopolize. see absorb.
        1913 webster
see also:
engrossed engrossing gross engrossed bill engrossing hand absorb 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

engrossed
     adj 1: wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that
            engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her
            totally engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent
            on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly
            stirred"- walter de la mare; "rapt with wonder";
            "wrapped in thought" syn: absorbed, enwrapped, intent,
             rapt, wrapped
     2: written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other
        legal document
see also:
absorbed enwrapped intent rapt wrapped 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

112 moby thesaurus words for "engrossed":
   absent, absentminded, absorbed, absorbed in, abstracted, assiduous,
   autograph, autographic, bemused, buried in, buried in thought,
   busy, calligraphic, castle-building, caught up in, chirographic,
   consumed, contemplating, contemplative, cursive, daydreaming,
   daydreamy, deep, devoted, devoted to, diligent, dreaming, dreamy,
   drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged, engaged in thought,
   engrossed in, engrossed in thought, faraway, flowing, graphic,
   graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, half-awake, holograph,
   holographic, immersed, immersed in, immersed in thought,
   in a reverie, in longhand, in shorthand, in the clouds, in writing,
   industrious, inscribed, intent, intent on, introspective, involved,
   italic, italicized, longhand, lost, lost in, lost in thought,
   manuscript, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized,
   mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious,
   obsessed, occupied, on paper, penciled, penned, pensive,
   pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, printed, rapt, running, scriptorial,
   scriptural, sedulous, shorthand, single-minded, somewhere else,
   stargazing, studious, studying, stylographic, submerged,
   submerged in, swept up, taken up, taken up with, totally absorbed,
   transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in,
   wrapped in thought, wrapped up, wrapped up in, written

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