Definitions
How to pronounce engaged:
Engaged - as an adjective satellite
Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
Example: "She keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"
Involved in military hostilities
Example: "The desperately engaged ships continued the fight"
(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: "Her line is busy"
(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
Example: "The gears are engaged"
Having services contracted for
Example: "The carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"
Built against or attached to a wall
Example: "Engaged columns"
Engaged - as a 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.
Engaged - as an adjective
Agreed to be married.
Busy or employed.
Greatly interested.
(of a telephone) already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
Example: "I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged."
(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.
Example Sentences
Word Game Points
ENGAGED has a SCRABBLE points total of 10.
ENGAGED has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 13.
ENGAGED has a WORDFEUD points total of 12.
