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occupy

verb

1 Carol occupied the basement flat:

live in, inhabit, be the tenant of, tenant, lodge in, be established/ensconced in, establish/ensconce oneself in, take up residence in, make one's home in, settle in, move into;

people, populate, settle;

Scottish, & South African stay in;

formal reside in, dwell in.

2 two long windows occupied almost the whole of the end wall:

take up, fill, fill up, cover, extend over, use up, utilize.

3 he occupies a senior post at the Treasury:

hold, be in, fill, have;

informal hold down.

4 I need something to occupy my mind:

engage, busy, employ, distract, absorb, engross, preoccupy, hold, hold the attention of, immerse, interest, involve, entertain, divert, amuse, beguile.

5 Hamburg was occupied by the French in 1812:

capture, seize, take possession of, conquer, invade, overrun, take over, colonize, garrison, annex, dominate, subjugate, hegemonize, hold, commandeer, requisition.

▷antonyms leave, abandon, quit.

occupy Oxford Dictionary of English