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1. occupy
verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] keep busy with.
Synonyms
- smatter
- work
- play around
- dabble
- putter
- potter
Antonyms
- refresh
- fill
- eat out
- eat in
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Rhymes with Occupy
- preoccupy
Sentences with occupy
1. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
Less familiar brown spider species occupy the Desert Southwest.
2. Verb, base form
Find a chair and keep yourself busy with whatever you brought to occupy yourself while you wait.
3. Adjective
Florida has some of America’s best RV resorts, but only a few occupy prime oceanfront property.
Quotes about occupy
1. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant
2. Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
- Douglas Rushkoff
3. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
2. occupy
verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] live (in a certain place).
Synonyms
- reside
- live
- crash
- move in
- populate
- inhabit
- stay at
- squat
- dwell
Antonyms
- underspend
- pack
- dock
- burden
3. occupy
verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] occupy the whole of.
Synonyms
- be
- crowd
- fill
Antonyms
- charge
- lodge
- fuse
- ionate
4. occupy
verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation.
Synonyms
- overrun
- infest
- attack
- invade
Antonyms
- change
- miss
- differ
- disagree
5. occupy
verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] be on the mind of.
Synonyms
- concern
- interest
Antonyms
- iodinate
- string
- give
6. occupy
verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] consume all of one's attention or time.
Synonyms
- engross
- absorb
- involve
- engage
- consume
- interest
Antonyms
- suffer
- converge
- be well
- agree
7. occupy
verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] require (time or space).
Synonyms
- be
- eat up
- use
- wipe out
- exhaust
- use up
- eat
- consume
- take
- run through
- expend
Antonyms
- inactivity
- abstain
- nonfunctional
- functional
8. occupy
verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] assume, as of positions or roles.
Synonyms
- strike
- do work
- assume
- fill
- work
- take
Antonyms
- inutility
- supply
- refrain
- add