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Meaning of 'engaged' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Engaged [ a.]
- Occupied; employed; busy.
- Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
- Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
- Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.
2 . Engaged [ imp. & p. p.]
- of Engage

Meaning of 'engaged' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . engaged [ s]
Meaning (1):
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
Example in sentence:
  • deeply engaged in conversation;
  • she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities
Meaning (2):
- built against or attached to a wall
Example in sentence:
  • engaged columns
Meaning (3):
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
Example in sentence:
  • her line is busy;
  • kept getting a busy signal;
  • receptionists' telephones are always engaged;
  • the lavatory is in use
Meaning (4):
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
Example in sentence:
  • intermeshed twin rotors;
  • meshed gears;
  • the gears are engaged
Meaning (5):
- having services contracted for
Example in sentence:
  • the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick
Meaning (6):
- involved in military hostilities
Example in sentence:
  • the desperately engaged ships continued the fight

Nearby Words:

engage engagedly engagedness engagement engager engaging engallant engaol engarboil engarland

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