engrossed

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛn.ˈɡɹoʊst/
• Rhymes: -oʊst

engrossed

1. simple past tense and past participle of engross

engrossed (comparative more engrossed, superlative most engrossed)

1. Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 258:

     The large, soft dark eyes were raised, but seemed rather engrossed by their own feelings—(thoughts are scarcely tender enough for such a look)—than fixed upon any surrounding object.

2. (of a document) Finalized, written in large letters.

• grossened