engaged
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[edit]Verb
[edit]engaged
- simple past and past participle of engage
Adjective
[edit]engaged (not comparable)
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Busy or employed.
- 1984, “When Doves Cry”, in Purple Rain, performed by Prince:
- Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this?
- Greatly interested.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- Synonym: (US) busy
- 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.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]agreed to be married
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busy or employed — see busy
already involved in a telephone call
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