engross

verb7

1. •
   To completely engage the attention of; to involve.

   • She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.
2. •
   To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

   • Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army — 2007
3. •
   To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

   • This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present. — 1850
4. •
   (no longer used) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
5. •
   (no longer used) To thicken; to condense.

   • As, when a foggy mist hath ouercast / The face of heuen, and the cleare ayre engroste, / The world in darkenes dwels, […] — 1590
6. •
   (no longer used) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

   • The waues thereof so slow and sluggish were, / Engrost with mud, which did them fowle agrise, / That euery weighty thing they did vpbeare, / Ne ought mote euer sinck downe to the bottom there. — 1590
7. •
   (no longer used) To amass.

   • Percy is but my factor, good my Lord, / To engrosse vp glorious deeds on my behalfe. — 1597