engross
in grohs
- v devote (oneself) fully to
- v consume all of one's attention or time
- If Thornton Wilder can survive serialization and engross the viewer, who can say that the networks cannot some day succeed with, say, War and Peace or Look Homeward, Angel?.
- Living in a Manhattan studio, they have no children because Nura feels a real one might engross her to the point that she could not paint imaginary ones.
- These are a few of the momentous developments that will engross the Great American Electronic Family with the start of the new television season this Sunday.