| croupy | (adjective) resembling or arising from or indicating croup | - |
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| occupy | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, engross |
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| (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: invade |
| (verb) require (time or space) | Synonyms: take, use up |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: busy |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: fill, take |
| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, reside |
| (verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: fill |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, interest, worry |
| preoccupy | (verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively | - |
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| (verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance | - |
| soupy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy |
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| (adjective) having the consistency and appearance of soup | - |
| syrupy | (adjective) with honey added | Synonyms: honeyed, honied |
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| (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, saccharine, treacly |
| (adjective) having a relatively high resistance to flow | Synonyms: viscous |