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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/, /ɛnˈɡeɪdʒd/
Verb
engaged
- simple past and past participle of engage
Adjective
engaged (not comparable)
- Agreed to be married.
- Busy or employed.
- Greatly interested.
- (British) (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.
Synonyms
- (of a telephone): (US) busy
Translations
agreed to be married
- Arabic: مَخْطُوب m (maḵṭūb), مَخْطُوبَة f (maḵṭūba)
- Armenian: նշանված (nšanvac)
- Bulgarian: сгоден (bg) (sgoden)
- Catalan: promès (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 訂婚了／订婚了 (zh), 订婚了 (zh) (dìnghūn le) (verb)
- Czech: zasnoubený m
- Danish: forlovet
- Dutch: verloofd (nl)
- Finnish: kihloissa, kihloihin
- French: fiancé (fr) m, fiancée (fr) f
- German: verlobt (de)
- Hebrew: מאורס (m'orás)
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- Irish: geallta
- Italian: fidanzato (it) m, fidanzata (it) f, impegnato (it) m, impegnata (it) f
- Japanese: 婚約している (ja) (こんやくしている, kon'yaku-shite iru) (verb)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forlovet, (to get engaged) forlove seg
- Polish: narzeczony (pl) m, narzeczona (pl) f
- Portuguese: noivo (pt)
- Romanian: logodit (ro)
- Russian: помо́лвленный (ru) m (pomólvlennyj), помо́лвленная (ru) f (pomólvlennaja), обручённый (ru) (obručónnyj), обручённая (ru) f (obručónnaja)
- Spanish: comprometido (es)
- Swedish: förlovad (sv)
- Turkish: nişanlı (tr), sözlü (tr)
- Yiddish: פֿאַרקנסט (farknast)
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already involved in a telephone call
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