engaged
adjective
- being involved
- being betrothed, promised to wed
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/ / /ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
adj
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- 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?”
- Greatly interested.
- (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
“I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.”
- 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”).
“Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.”
verb
- simple past and past participle of engage