0 If something engrosses you, it is so interesting that you give it all your attention:
What is it about Harry Potter that so engrosses children?
Experienced engineers have rapidly become engrossed with the possibilities of the approach and intrigued by some of the results when given access to hands-on experimentation.
He was completely engrossed and serious about his every action, looking at the spot, carefully grasping it, raising his hand and then losing it.
It is this process which leads to inventive energies being engrossed by a relatively limited set of problems.
Thus, we may find ourselves having walked miles of city sidewalks or wooded paths almost blindly while engrossed in deep conversation with a friend.
Unfortunately the era of cooperation was doomed as these two historically contemporary superpowers became engrossed in an increasingly lengthy series of campaigns for supremacy.
It is in many ways an admirable, engrossing, and valuable collection, if also, from time to time, a tendentious one.
One is engrossed in the conversation and one does not notice the drill.
He possessed an engrossing strangeness that thrust him outside the human, an emptiness that made him seem at once animal and machine-like.
