Synonyms for occupied
oc·cu·pied

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1. occupied

   Industrious signifies zealously or habitually applying oneself to any work or business. Busy applies to an activity which may be temporary, industrious to a habit of life. We say a man is busy just now; that is, occupied at the moment with something that takes his full attention. It would be ridiculous or satirical to say, he is industrious just now. But busy can be used in the sense of industrious, as when we say he is a busy man. Diligent indicates also a disposition, which is ordinarily habitual, and suggests more of heartiness and volition than industrious. We say one is a diligent, rather than an industrious, reader of the Bible. In the use of the nouns, we speak of plodding industry, but not of plodding diligence. Compare ACTIVE; INDUSTRY.

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   Synonyms:
   active, assiduous, busy, diligent, employed, engaged, industrious, sedulous

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1. occupiedadjective

   held or filled or in use

   "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"

   Synonyms:
   tenanted, engaged

   Antonyms:
   spare, idle, uninhabited, relinquished, free, unoccupied

2. occupiedadjective

   seized and controlled as by military invasion

   "the occupied countries of Europe"

   Synonyms:
   tenanted, engaged

   Antonyms:
   uninhabited, idle, unoccupied, relinquished, spare, free

3. occupied, tenantedadjective

   resided in; having tenants

   "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"

   Synonyms:
   tenanted, engaged

   Antonyms:
   spare, relinquished, uninhabited, free, unoccupied, idle

4. engaged, occupiedadjective

   having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

   "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"

   Synonyms:
   in use(p), intermeshed, set-aside(p), engaged, booked, meshed, busy, tenanted

   Antonyms:
   spare, free, relinquished, idle, unoccupied, uninhabited

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1. List of paraphrases for "occupied":

   busy, occupying, occupation, golan, filled, held, israeli-occupied, employed, encumbered, inhabited

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1. Paul Dergarabedian:

   It turned cartoons into cinematic art, it would forever change the perception of animation as more than just filler to keep kids occupied and distracted.

2. Myles Caggins:

   Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces, conducting a routine anti-ISIS security patrol near Tal Al-Zahab, Syria, encountered a checkpoint occupied by pro-Syrian regime forces. After receiving safe passage from the pro-regime forces, the patrol came under small arms fire from individuals in the vicinity of the checkpoint. Coalition troops returned fire in self-defense.

3. Jeremiah Wright:

   As we sit here, there is an apartheid wall being built twice the size of the Berlin Wall in height, keeping Palestinians off of illegally occupied territories, where the Europeans have claimed that land as their own.

4. Washington County:

   In the flash flooding two occupied vehicles were hit by a large wall of water and debris at the Canyon Street Maxwell Crossing and were carried into the flood.

5. Ross MacPhee:

   Despite their ungainly appearance, different species of glyptodonts occupied habitats as distinct as open grassland and dense woodland, all the way from Patagonia to the southern parts of the continental United States, although their disappearance has been blamed on human depredation as well as climate change, some species persisted into the early part of the modern or Holocene epoch, long after the disappearance of mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Like the loss of giant ground sloths, mastodons, and dozens of other remarkable mammalian species, the precise cause of the New World megafaunal extinctions remains uncertain.