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simple past and past participle of engage examples
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Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other. examples
Busy or employed. examples
Greatly interested. examples
(Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls. examples
(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway examples
(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation examples
(military) being attacked or attacking
(medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet. examples
Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”) quotations examples
Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.
2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature, page 81