Occupied
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Middle English: formed irregularly from Old French occuper, from Latin occupare ‘seize’. A now obsolete vulgar sense ‘have sexual relations with’ seems to have led to the general avoidance of the word in the 17th and most of the 18th century.
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occupied (adj.)
late 15c., past-participle adjective from occupy (v.). Of countries overrun by others, from 1940, originally with reference to France.