engaged
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
engaged
- simple past tense and past participle of engage
Adjective[edit]
engaged (not comparable)
- Agreed to be married.
- Busy or employed.
- Greatly interested.
- (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
- I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
- 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature (page 81)
- Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.
- 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature (page 81)
Synonyms[edit]
- (of a telephone): (US) busy
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
agreed to be married
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busy or employed — see busy
already involved in a telephone call