How do you use the word "engross" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "engross" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "engross": The complex puzzle will likely engross him for hours. I didn't want the task to engross all of my free time.

Engross Meaning

/ɪnˈɡɹəʊs/

Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

verbTo buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

Sentence Examples

The complex puzzle will likely engross him for hours.

I didn't want the task to engross all of my free time.

The mystery novel was so exciting it would engross any reader.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

steep engage occupy

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The detailed historical novel will ____ the reader for hours without any pause.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The exciting mystery novel will completely ____ the reader from the start.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English engrossen, from Anglo-Norman engrosser (“to gather in large quantities, draft something in final form”); partly from the phrase en gros (“in bulk, in quantity, at wholesale”), from en- + gros; and partly from Medieval Latin ingrossō (“thicken, write something large and in bold lettering”, v.), from in- + grossus (“great, big, thick”), from Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). More at in-, gross. By surface analysis, en- + gross.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present." — 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Custom-house. Introductory to ‘The Scarlet Letter.’”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 34:

"laws that may be engrossed upon a finger nail" — 1846, Thomas De Quincey, “On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine:

"Wherefore Mr. Micawber […] set to work at the petition, invented it, engrossed it on an immense sheet of paper, spread it out on a table, and appointed a time for all the club, and all within the walls if they chose, to come up to his room and sign it." — 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

"After which time the Popes of Rome, engroſſing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fanſied not; […]" — 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 7:

"The Coral Islands are principally visited by the pearl-shell fishermen, who arrive in small schooners, carrying not more than five or six men. For a long while the business was engrossed by Merenhout, the French Consul at Tahiti, but a Dutchman by birth, who, in one year, is said to have sent to France fifty thousand dollars' worth of shells." — 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

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