Similar words: taken, betaken, take note, partaken, mistaken, take notes, overtaken, take note of. Meaning: adj. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.
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91. Dennis's mornings were fully taken up meeting clients, delegating responsibilities, processing figures and accessing data.
92. But just as they did so, ecologists, epidemiologists, and alarmed demographers have taken up the cry.
93. The Ministry inspector's recommendation for a porter's lodge was taken up and went out to tender.
94. When the rats who had taken up residence in his building were ousted.
95. The elderly are, therefore, still involved in extended family relationships, a point taken up again in section 6.6.
96. Some former students have taken up administrative posts in various public and private enterprises and in the civil service and local government.
97. As in any full-blown controversy, these polarised positions were the ones taken up by most contributors to the fight.
98. It made her feel a little dowdy, as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality.
99. The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms.
100. The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two.
101. Wilkes, as a symbol of defiant resistance to government, was taken up by all these groups.
102. A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences.
103. The remaining space in the window i s taken up with the currently selected command sequence.
104. She waited patiently in council chambers for about two hours for the issue to be taken up in executive session.
105. Most of the chart is taken up by tired old album tracks, reissues, remixes - hardly value for money.
106. But developing nations, where 2 billion people still have no electricity, have taken up the slack.
107. The idea was taken up immediately and news of it spread throughout the land.
108. One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books[sentencedict.com], photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed.
109. They may even locally have taken up arms for the Cathar cause.
110. Top singers He's a gifted songwriter whose tunes have been taken up by some of the country's top folk singers.
111. Keys and valuables were taken up to prevent anyone from drinking and driving.
112. The labs' distant agents are Kurds who have taken up residence in the West.
113. Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment.
114. Booklets can be very popular indeed and some booklets have been taken up in very large quantities.
115. Then we were taken up steep narrow logging roads into the mountains of Boras.
116. Much of that time is taken up negotiating with creditors.
117. Later, it was taken up by the communications industry and developed into worldwide markets.
118. The time taken up by pauses is not counted in bout time.
119. The placing and rights issue to fund the acquisition were undersubscribed,[www.Sentencedict.com] with 61.2 percent of the rights issue taken up.
120. But up to 40 percent of downtown spaces are taken up all day by cars with disabled placards.
More similar words: taken, betaken, take note, partaken, mistaken, take notes, overtaken, take note of, take notice, mistakenly, undertaken, take no notice, take notice of, take no notice of, taken for granted, if I am not mistaken, open up, freshen up, loosen up, smarten up, lighten up, tighten up, prenuptial, take the cake, make a mistake, straighten up, awaken, kraken, shaken, weaken.