TAKEN UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does taken up mean? 

• TAKEN UP (adjective)
  The adjective TAKEN UP has 1 sense:

1. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

  Familiarity information: TAKEN UP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKEN UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

Synonyms:

haunted; obsessed; preoccupied; taken up

Context example:

he was taken up in worry for the old woman

Similar:

concerned (feeling or showing worry or solicitude)

 Context examples 

Cells signal each other by direct contact with each other or by the release of a substance from one cell that is taken up by another cell.

(Cell-cell signaling, NCI Dictionary)

Upon administration, phytofluene is taken up and accumulates in various tissues.

(Carbon C 13 Phytofluene, NCI Thesaurus)

It is linked to ATSM, which is taken up by tissues that have low levels of oxygen, such as some tumor tissues.

(copper Cu 64-ATSM, NCI Dictionary)

Upon intravenous administration, camptothecin is slowly released from the formulation at the tumor site and taken up by tumor cells.

(Cyclodextrin-Based Polymer-Camptothecin CRLX101, NCI Thesaurus)

When I had done, that name was immediately taken up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When it becomes due, it will not be taken up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is taken up by cancer cells and breaks down into 5-fluorouracil, a substance that kills tumor cells.

(Capecitabine, NCI Dictionary)

Capable of being taken up or taken in.

(Absorbable, NCI Thesaurus)

Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“And now, Lord Holdhurst, we have already taken up too much of your valuable time, and we shall wish you good-day.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)