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Altar Bound Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is ENGAGED which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: ENGAGED

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199%7Exact Match!
239%9Bound for the altar
327%5Bound is bound to this

About This Clues Answer

We think the answer is "ENGAGED" which means:

    adjective satellite
  • • Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
  • • Involved in military hostilities
  • • 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)
  • • (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
  • • Having services contracted for
  • • Built against or attached to a wall
  • • Pledged to be married
  • verb
  • • (heading) to interact socially.
  • • (heading) to interact antagonistically.
  • • (heading) to interact contractually.
  • • (heading) to interact mechanically.
  • • To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
  • • To entangle.
  • adjective
  • • Agreed to be married.
  • • Busy or employed.
  • • Greatly interested.
  • • (of a telephone) already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
  • • (of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
  • • (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
  • • Being attacked or attacking
  • • (of a foetus) having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "She seemed engaged in the conversation."
  • • "They were engaged in a heated debate."

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New York Times20 Oct 1981 Across 60
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