engaged
adj/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/ · /ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
9 senses
- 1Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé…
- 2Busy or employed.
- 3Greatly interested.
- 4(of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call…
- 5attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- 6in contact and in operation
- 7being attacked or attacking
- 8Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually…
- 9Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
1
Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
2
Busy or employed.
- 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?1984, “When Doves Cry”, in Purple Rain, performed by Prince:
3
Greatly interested.
4
UK (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.
5
Architecture Of a column attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
6
Of gears or cogs in contact and in operation
7
Government, Military, Politics, War being attacked or attacking
8
Medicine, Sciences Of a foetus Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
9
Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature, page 81:
- Derived terms
- engaged column, engagedly, engagedness, engaged time, engaged tone, nonengaged, otherwise engaged, semiengaged, underengaged, unengaged
- Related terms
- engage, engagement