engaged

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/, /ɛnˈɡeɪdʒd/

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engaged

1. simple past tense and past participle of engage

engaged (not comparable)

1. Agreed to be married.
2. Busy or employed.
3. Greatly interested.
4. (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls

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

5. (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
6. (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
7. (military) being attacked or attacking
8. (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.

• (of a telephone): (US) busy

• engage
• engagement

• (agreed to be married): fiancée, fiancé