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engaged

adjective

  1. being involved
  2. being betrothed, promised to wed
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/ / /ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/

adj

  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?

  3. Greatly interested.
  4. (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. attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
  6. in contact and in operation
  7. being attacked or attacking
  8. 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.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of engage