The best word is engross!
Fewer employs would be the correct terminology since you are not describing what is less of the employs.
He mutilated the dead child and buried it in the Evil Forest. He said this would make the ogbange think before it came back again. ... If it were discovered, then the child would not die. When Okagbue found Ezinma's iyi-uwa, the people knew Ezinma's troubles were over.
What option?? Sorry, I can’t see any...