Engaged

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Employed, occupied, or busy.
  • adj. Committed, as to a cause.
  • adj. Pledged to marry; betrothed: an engaged couple.
  • adj. Involved in conflict or battle.
  • adj. Being in gear; meshed.
  • adj. Partly embedded in, built into, or attached to another part, as columns on a wall.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of engage.
  • adj. Agreed to be married.
  • adj. Busy or employed.
  • adj. (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls it
  • adj. attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
  • adj. in contact and in operation
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Occupied; employed; busy.
  • adj. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
  • adj. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
  • adj. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Affianced; betrothed: as, an engaged pair.
  • Busy or occupied with matters which cannot be interrupted; not at leisure: as, when I call I always find him engaged.
  • In architecture, partly built or sunk into, or having the appearance of being partly built or sunk into, something else: as, engaged columns.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
  • adj. involved in military hostilities
  • adj. having services contracted for
  • adj. built against or attached to a wall
  • adj. reserved in advance
  • adj. (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
  • adj. having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
  • Equivalent
    occupied    involved    employed    connected    reserved    geared    busy   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    occupied    employed    busy    pledged    promised    affianced    betrothed    earnest    involved   
    Verb Stem
    engage   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    aged    assuaged    caged    disengaged    enraged    gauged    paged    raged    rampaged    restaged