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engaged

verb
/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of engage

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

  3. Busy or employed.

    • Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this?
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Greatly interested.

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

      • I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.

    3. attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway

    4. in contact and in operation

    5. being attacked or attacking

    6. Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or…

      Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.

    7. Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).

      • Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.

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Derived

engaged column, engagedly, engagedness, engaged time, engaged tone, nonengaged, otherwise engaged, semiengaged, underengaged, unengaged

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at engaged. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01engaged02busy03preoccupied04available05readily06impediment07army08charge09combatants10combatant

A definitional loop anchored at engaged. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at engaged

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA