engaged
IPA: ɛngˈeɪdʒd
adjective
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Busy or employed.
- Greatly interested.
- (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- (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”)
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Examples of "engaged" in Sentences
- What keeps the reader thoroughly engaged is not drama but the high quality of Hadrian's thought and powers of observation.
- It was all madness; he was in love, thoroughly attached to Lucy, and engaged, engaged as strongly as an honorable man need be.
- Moncrieff says it is vital that the international community remain engaged in Guinea after the elections to ensure stability in the country and the region.
- Like you, we put our beliefs into motion -- what we call "engaged ethics" -- from our perspectives within Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism ... well, it's a long list, isn't it?
- I can't think worth a damn, i'm coughing every other word i type so anything remotely brain engaged is coming in really really short spurts ... if you're waiting on something from me ... it might take a while.
- Had the ladies not all been driven from the city by the pestilence, I should most assuredly have engaged some one or more of them to solve the question, whether the doctor was engaged in offices of sympathy, or an affair of the heart -- or whether he was actually _engaged_ in any way.
- The usual consequences followed -- he could not earn money so fast as she could spend it; the house became a scene of discord; the daughter dressed in the fashion; learned to play on the piano; was taught to think that being engaged in any useful employment was very ungenteel; and that to be _engaged to be married_ was the chief end and aim of woman; the father died a bankrupt; the weak and frivolous mother lingered along in beggary, for a while, and then died of vexation and shame.
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