taken up
Begun as hobby
Taken up describes something that has been occupied, filled, or claimed.
A seat is taken up when someone sits in it; time is taken up when devoted to an activity: Most of my morning was taken up with meetings.
To be taken up with something is to be absorbed or preoccupied by it: She's completely taken up with her new project.
Space can be taken up physically: The couch takes up half the room.
- consumeTake in fully
- gobbled upAte rapidly, completely
- adoptTake as one's own
- hoistedLifted with effort
- preoccupiedMentally elsewhere, not present
soaked up · espouse · embark · sweep up · embrace · enter · took · engrossed · caught up in · wrapped up in · shortened · elevated · captivated · expended · assimilated · endorsed · picked up · picked up the slack
taken upabandoned
Left behind completely
dropped · given up · relinquished · forsaken · discarded
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