Consumes all of one's attention

Usage examples of engrosses.

When one group is present and engrosses the interest, all the ideas connected with other groups may be excluded from the mental field.

While he fascinates and engrosses, Michener also educates as he has done in the 18 books which preceded CENTENNIAL.

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.

I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.