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reoccupy

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oc⋅cu⋅py

  [ok-yuh-pahy] verb, -pied, -py⋅ing.
Use reoccupy in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
2. to engage or employ the mind, energy, or attention of: Occupy the children with a game while I prepare dinner.
3. to be a resident or tenant of; dwell in: We occupied the same house for 20 years.
4. to take possession and control of (a place), as by military invasion.
5. to hold (a position, office, etc.).
–verb (used without object)
6. to take or hold possession.
Origin:
1300–50; ME occupien < MF occuper < L occupāre to seize, take hold, take up, make one's own, equiv. to oc- oc- + -cup-, comb. form of capere to take, seize + -āre inf. suffix

Related forms:
oc⋅cu⋅pi⋅a⋅ble, adjective
oc⋅cu⋅pi⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1, 2, 4, 5. See have. 2. use, busy. 4. capture, seize.
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Word Origin & History

occupy 
c.1340, "to take possession of," also "to take up space or time, employ (someone)," from O.Fr. occuper, from L. occupare "take over, seize, possess, occupy," from ob "over" + intensive form of capere "to grasp, seize" (see capable). During 16c.-17c. a euphemism for "have sexual intercourse with," which caused it to fall from polite usage.
"A captaine? Gods light these villaines wil make the word as odious as the word occupy, which was an excellent good worde before it was il sorted." [Doll Tearsheet in "2 Henry IV"]

reoccupy 
1807, from re- "back, again" + occupy (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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