engaged
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
The English word “engaged” has 9 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Busy or employed.
- Greatly interested.
- (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- in contact and in operation
- being attacked or attacking
- 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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