was preoccupying
-préoccupais
Past progressive conjugation of preoccupy. There are other translations for this conjugation.

preoccupy

The news of it had come through to Andros, and it was preoccupying the minds of the shipowners anxious about their freights.
Les nouvelles d'elles étaient venues à travers à Andros, et elles préoccupaient les esprits des armateurs impatients au sujet de leurs frets.
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