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Prepossess

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To preoccupy the mind of to the exclusion of other thoughts or feelings.

v. To influence beforehand against or in favor of someone or something; prejudice.

v. To impress favorably in advance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.

v. To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To preoccupy, as ground or land; take previous possession of.

To preoccupy the mind or heart of; imbue beforehand with some opinion or estimate; bias; prejudice: as, his appearance and manners strongly prepossessed them in his favor.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cause to be preoccupied

v. possess beforehand

v. make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand

v. influence (somebody's) opinion in advance

Word Usage

"M. Krempe was a little squat man, with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits."

Verb Form

prepossessed prepossesses prepossessing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

preoccupy have possess own impress

Form

prepossessed prepossessing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

absorb prejudiced