: having one's attention wholly engaged or occupied
… was so absorbed in the business of his journey that he never turned his head …—Thomas Hardy
I was too absorbed in my own problems and too uninterested in politics to remember that it was also a momentous day in Washington.—Russell Baker
absorbedly
əb-ˈsȯr-bəd-lē
adverb
-ˈzȯr-
… but Miss Isaacs keeps the plot boiling, and mostly one is reading too absorbedly to notice.
—Anna Shapiro
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