Definitions for engaged

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engaged en·gaged

Spelling: [en-geyjd]

IPA: /ɛnˈgeɪdʒd/

Engaged is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in engaged (adeeggn).

Definitions for engaged

adjective

1. busy or occupied; involved:
2. pledged to be married; betrothed:
3. under engagement; pledged:
4. entered into conflict with:
5. Mechanics. interlocked. (of wheels) in gear with each other.
6. Architecture. (of a distinct member) built so as to be truly or seemingly attached in part to the structure before which it stands:

verb (used with object)

1. to occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons):
2. to secure for aid, employment, use, etc.; hire:
3. to attract and hold fast:
4. to attract or please:
5. to bind, as by pledge, promise, contract, or oath; make liable:
6. to betroth (usually used in the passive):
7. to bring (troops) into conflict; enter into conflict with:
8. Mechanics. to cause (gears or the like) to become interlocked; interlock with.
9. to attach or secure.
10. Obsolete. to entangle or involve.

verb (used without object)

1. to occupy oneself; become involved:
2. to take employment:
3. to pledge one's word; assume an obligation:
4. to cross weapons; enter into conflict:
5. Mechanics. (of gears or the like) to interlock.

Origin of engaged

First recorded in 1605-15; engage + -ed²

Examples for engaged

While engaged with her father, she would cut wood, haul logs, etc.

On the 23rd we were engaged making preparations for a start for Eucla.

“After we got engaged, she only made things harder,” explains Sabrine.

Plainly, too, he was a man of action and a man who engaged all her instinctive liking.

She was engaged a year later to a man 11 years her senior, chosen by her father.

My granddaughter, you may have heard, is engaged to an Englishman.

The brash, engaged, occasionally self-centered ex-lawmaker seemed to retreat inward and practically disappear.

Then after she was engaged to Shepler they talked him out of it.

And what do I call him now that we are living together, but are not engaged or married?

Jennie met Randolph Churchill in 1873 at a ball; three days later they were engaged.