Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to occupy
Participle: occupied
Gerund: occupying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | occupy |
| you | occupy |
| he;she;it | occupies |
| we | occupy |
| you | occupy |
| they | occupy |
Perfect
| I | have occupied |
| you | have occupied |
| he;she;it | has occupied |
| we | have occupied |
| you | have occupied |
| they | have occupied |
Past
| I | occupied |
| you | occupied |
| he;she;it | occupied |
| we | occupied |
| you | occupied |
| they | occupied |
Pluperfect
| I | had occupied |
| you | had occupied |
| he;she;it | had occupied |
| we | had occupied |
| you | had occupied |
| they | had occupied |
Future
| I | will occupy |
| you | will occupy |
| he;she;it | will occupy |
| we | will occupy |
| you | will occupy |
| they | will occupy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have occupied |
| you | will have occupied |
| he;she;it | will have occupied |
| we | will have occupied |
| you | will have occupied |
| they | will have occupied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | occupy |
| you | occupy |
| he;she;it | occupy |
| we | occupy |
| you | occupy |
| they | occupy |
Perfect
| I | have occupied |
| you | have occupied |
| he;she;it | have occupied |
| we | have occupied |
| you | have occupied |
| they | have occupied |
Imperfect
| I | occupied |
| you | occupied |
| he;she;it | occupied |
| we | occupied |
| you | occupied |
| they | occupied |
Pluperfect
| I | had occupied |
| you | had occupied |
| he;she;it | had occupied |
| we | had occupied |
| you | had occupied |
| they | had occupied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would occupy |
| you | would occupy |
| he;she;it | would occupy |
| we | would occupy |
| you | would occupy |
| they | would occupy |
Perfect
| I | would have occupied |
| you | would have occupied |
| he;she;it | would have occupied |
| we | would have occupied |
| you | would have occupied |
| they | would have occupied |
Imperative
| you | occupy |
| we | Let's occupy |
| you | occupy |
Verbs conjugated like 'occupy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'occupy'
occult,
occur,
reoccupy,
accept,
accloy,
accoy,
accumb,
accuse,
copy,
coup,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to have sexual intercourse with
- seduce, copulate with
- to have a settled abode permanently or for a considerable time
- abide, bedwell, belive, dwell, inhabit, live, reside, stay
- engage
- busy, engross, employ, attend, monopolize, fill, use
- capture
- conquer, keep, possess, invade, seize, obtain
- maintain
- remain, tenant, reside, pervade, extend
Antonyms
- maintain
- discontinue, quit, forsake, leave
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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"]
2. From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capiō (“to take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete. See: Latin '
occupō'.
Verbs referencing "occupy"
Spanish
ocupar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] and then the house; she became familiar with the form, density, weight, and heat, of every article she could lay her hands upon. She followed her mother, and felt her hands and arms, as she was occupied about the house; and her disposition to imitate, led her to repeat everything herself. She even learned to sew a little, and to knit. ’
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘When left alone, she occupies and apparently amuses herself, and seems quite contented; and so strong seems to be the natural tendency of thought to put on the garb of language, that she often soliloquizes in the finger [...]
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[...] these two—the master and the pupil—is as far removed from all ordinary care and regard, as the circumstances in which it has had its growth, are apart from the common occurrences of life. He is occupied now, in devising means of imparting to her, higher knowledge; and of conveying to her some adequate idea of the Great Creator of that universe in which, dark and silent and scentless though it be to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of men engaged in ordinary labour, such as he is accustomed to out of doors, will impress him half as strongly as the contemplation of the same persons in the same place and garb would, if they were occupied in some task, marked and degraded everywhere as belonging only to felons in jails. In an American state prison or house of correction, I found it difficult at first to persuade myself that I was [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the courts at Boston. I was much surprised at first, too, to observe that the counsel who interrogated the witness under examination at the time, did so sitting. But seeing that he was also occupied in writing down the answers, and remembering that he was alone and had no ‘junior, ’ I quickly consoled myself with the reflection that law was not quite so expensive an article here, as at home; [...]
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[...] Springfield. From that place to Hartford, whither we were bound, is a distance of only five-and-twenty miles, but at that time of the year the roads were so bad that the journey would probably have occupied ten or twelve hours. Fortunately, however, the winter having been unusually mild, the Connecticut River was ‘open, ’ or, in other words, not frozen. The captain of a small steamboat was going to [...]
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[...] ladies ’ cabin; baggage and stowage rooms; engineer 's room; and in short a great variety of perplexities which render the discovery of the gentlemen 's cabin, a matter of some difficulty. It often occupies the whole length of the boat (as it did in this case ), and has three or four tiers of berths on each side. When I first descended into the cabin of the New York, it looked, in my unaccustomed [...]
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[...] the worst parts of the City Road and Pentonville, or the straggling outskirts of Paris, where the houses are smallest, preserving all their oddities, but especially the small shops and dwellings, occupied in Pentonville (but not in Washington ) by furniture-brokers, keepers of poor eating-houses, and fanciers of birds. Burn the whole down; build it up again in wood and plaster; widen it a little; [...]
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[...] the sleepers, leads me to my berth. Standing beside it, I count these slumbering passengers, and get past forty. There is no use in going further, so I begin to undress. As the chairs are all occupied, and there is nothing else to put my clothes on, I deposit them upon the ground: not without soiling my hands, for it is in the same condition as the carpets in the Capitol, and from the same cause. [...]
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[...] He had kindly yielded up to us his wife 's own little parlour, and when I begged that he would show them in, I saw him look with painful apprehension at its pretty carpet; though, being otherwise occupied at the time, the cause of his uneasiness did not occur to me.
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