engaged

Meanings

Verb

• carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
  • "They engaged in a discussion"
• consume all of one's attention or time
• engage or hire for work
• ask to represent; of legal counsel
• give to in marriage
• get caught
  • "make sure the gear is engaged"
• carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
• hire for work or assistance
• engage for service under a term of contract
• keep engaged
  • "engaged the gears"
• simple past and past participle of engage

Adjective Satellite

• having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
  • "deeply engaged in conversation"
• involved in military hostilities
  • "the desperately engaged ships continued the fight"
• reserved in advance
• (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)
  • "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"
• (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
  • "the gears are engaged"
• having services contracted for
  • "the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"
• built against or attached to a wall
  • "engaged columns"

Adj

• 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”).

Synonyms

absorb, affiance, affianced, betroth, betrothed, booked, busy, charter, employ, engage, engagé, engross, enlist, hire, in use, intermeshed, lease, lock, mesh, meshed, occupied, occupy, operate, plight, prosecute, pursue, rent, set-aside, take, wage

Antonyms

disengage, fire

Related Words

engage, engagement