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Engaged

adjective

1.

Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged. Synonym: occupied. "Deeply engaged in conversation"

2.

Involved in military hostilities.

3.

Reserved in advance. Synonyms: booked, set-aside.

4.

(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). Synonyms: busy, in use. "Receptionists' telephones are always engaged" , "The lavatory is in use" , "Kept getting a busy signal"

5.

(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting. Synonyms: intermeshed, meshed. "Meshed gears" , "Intermeshed twin rotors"

6.

Having services contracted for.

7.

Built against or attached to a wall.

Engage

verb

(past & past part. engaged; pres. part. engaging)

1.

Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in. Synonyms: prosecute, pursue. "They engaged in a discussion"

2.

Consume all of one's attention or time. Synonyms: absorb, engross, occupy.

3.

Engage or hire for work. Synonyms: employ, hire. "How many people has she employed?"

4.

Ask to represent; of legal counsel.

5.

Give to in marriage. Synonyms: affiance, betroth, plight.

6.

Get caught.

7.

Carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns). Synonym: wage.

8.

Hire for work or assistance. Synonym: enlist.

9.

Engage for service under a term of contract. Synonyms: charter, hire, lease, rent, take. "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

10.

Keep engaged. Synonyms: lock, mesh, operate.

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... in fine literature—describes him as a brave battler with intolerance, hypocrisy, and confused conceptions in religion; with empty subtleties, obscurities, and terminologies, that can but issue in vain fantasies, in his controversial writings on the 'so-named critical philosophy.' He engaged with the Kritik der reinen Vernunft, on its appearance in 1781, in the Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek; first explained his objections to it in the 11th vol. of his Reisebeschreibung, (Description of a ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... Liverpool, and the question was put as to where we would stop. We said we would go to the "Northwestern," at Lime street, as that was the Hotel where Americans generally stopped at. When we got there the house was full and they could not let us in. Every room was engaged. But this friend said, "I am going to stay here. I engaged a room ahead. I sent a telegram on." My friends, that is just what the Christians are doing—sending their names in ahead. They are sending a message up saying: "Lord Jesus, I want one of those mansions You are ...

— Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations - Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangilist • Dwight L. Moody

... subject to me again. You remember how I promised your father that if he would let me make my home with you, he should never live to regret it? Do you think that I intend to repay the dearest wish of his heart in this way? Why, Mr. David, you are engaged to marry Kate." She took up the water-pail ...

— 'Way Down East - A Romance of New England Life • Joseph R. Grismer

... right. There is really a population of over 12,000 men and boys afloat all the year round on the North Sea, engaged in the arduous work of daily supplying the London and other markets ...

— The Young Trawler • R.M. Ballantyne

... vehemence with which he demanded their contempt deprived him of much of his force as a critic, for they justly wondered why a man should waste his lifetime in attacking them if they were indeed so worthless. Actually, they felt, Dale was a great deal more engaged with his audience than many of the imaginative writers whom he affected to despise for their sycophancy. And, especially towards the end of his life when his powers perhaps were weakening, the devices which he used ...

— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton

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