verb engaged simple past tense and past participle of engage. 0
adjective engaged Agreed to be married. 0
adjective engaged Busy or employed. 0
adjective engaged (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls. 0
adjective engaged (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway. 0
adjective engaged (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation. 0
adjective engaged (military) being attacked or attacking. 0
adjective engaged Someone who is engaged in or engaged on a particular activity is doing that thing. 0
adjective engaged When two people are engaged, they have agreed to marry each other. 0
adjective engaged If a telephone or a telephone line is engaged, it is already being used by someone else so that you are unable to speak to the person you are phoning. 0
adjective engaged If a public toilet is engaged, it is already being used by someone else. 0
adjective engaged pledged to be married; betrothed 0
adjective engaged employed, occupied, or busy 0
adjective engaged built against or attached to a wall or similar structure 0
adjective engaged (of a telephone line) already in use 0
adjective engaged pledged; esp., pledged in marriage; betrothed 0
adjective engaged not at leisure; occupied; employed; busy 0
adjective engaged involved in combat, as troops 0
adjective engaged voluntarily committed or personally involved 0
adjective engaged attached to or partly set into a wall, etc. 0
