engaged

adjective

Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.

Busy or employed.

Greatly interested.

(British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.

(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation

(military) being attacked or attacking

(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway

(medicine, of a foetus) 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”).

Roots

wadigage- · Frankish · pledge

Synonyms for engaged

busyadj occupiedadj betrothedn involvedadj committedadj affiancedv employedadj implicatedadj engrossedadj preoccupiedadj participatingadj

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