Word Finder - engaged

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(heading) To interact socially.

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(heading) To interact antagonistically.

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(heading) To interact contractually.

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(heading) To interact mechanically.

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To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).

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To entangle.

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Agreed to be married.

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Busy or employed.

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Greatly interested.

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

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

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(of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway

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(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation

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Being attacked or attacking

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

We were engaged in locating all of their victims we could find.

You were engaged to Josh.

What Alex did before we became engaged is none of my business.

I was NOT engaged to Josh!

Then his face engaged in a smile that created little wrinkles around his eyes and grooves in his cheeks.

We have engaged an Italian to give her lessons.

But his mind was soon engaged in earthier matters.

By the time he engaged the third, the woman was running once more.

The first curve frightened the hell out of him and he knew the brake pres­sure necessary to slow him from this speed could not be engaged all the way down the mountain without overheating the tiny pads to the point of ineffectiveness.

But if they thought she and Bordeaux were engaged, the matter would be closed.

Yeah, who'd ever know we were engaged?

I took your advice, and I got myself engaged.

At the time of his death he was engaged upon a memoir on the Theta and Omega Functions, which he left nearly complete.

The battle of Lund was, relatively to the number engaged, one of the bloodiest engagements of modern times.

Subsequently Green was engaged in railway building in Georgia and Alabama.

The large industrial population is engaged principally in the worsted and cotton manufacture.

We're not even engaged.

Are you two engaged?

Alex was willing to assume one of those duties long before they were engaged.

But you two were engaged.

But the captain drove him from the deck, and, wandering on in search of work, he fell in with a canal boatman who engaged him.

The steamships under the national flag are almost wholly engaged in the traffic between Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the river traffic, and port services.

Some 9000 individuals were engaged in unclassified industries.

The full number of persons liable to be called upon for military service and engaged in such service is calculated (1908) as 4,800,000, of whom 1,350,000 of the active army and the younger classes of army reserve would constitute the field armies set on foot at the outbreak of war.

In Queensland waters there are about 300 vessels, and on the Western Australian coast about 450 licensed craft engaged in the industry, the annual value of pearl-shell and pearls raised being nearly half a million sterling.

Queensland's annual output is between 750,000 and 800,000 oz.; the number of men engaged in goldmining is io,000.

Taking the states as a whole, agrarian legislation has been the most important subject that has engrossed the attention of their parliaments, and every state has been more or less engaged in tinkering with its land laws.

Then he knew she lied when she said they were practically engaged.

Neither Lori nor Alex would have considered it inappropriate to have relations – as long as they weren't engaged to anyone at the time.

Does it take more time to adjust while you're married than it does when you're engaged?

While she didn't shake her distraction completely, she was at least engaged.

Soon after he was engaged on an important embassy to Germany, the result of which was the treaty of Ulm, signed July 1620.

But all the while he was engaged with reflections on the nature of man, of the soul and of God, and for a while he remained invisible even to his most familiar friends.

When John Knox visited Calvin at Geneva one Sunday, it is said that he discovered him engaged in a game; and John Aylmer (1521-1594), though bishop of London, enjoyed a game of a Sunday afternoon, but used such language "as justly exposed his character to reproach."

While he was engaged upon some pieces for the convent of the Dominican friars, he made the acquaintance of Savonarola, who quickly acquired great influence over him, and Bartolommeo was so affected by his cruel death, that he soon after entered the convent, and for some years gave up his art.

The normal schools, maintained by the state on a secular basis, were founded by President Sarmiento, who engaged experienced teachers in the United States to direct them; their work is excellent; notably, their model primary schools.

Shipping.The following table thhows the increase in tonnage of sailing and steam shipping engaged in foreign trade entered and cleared at the ports of France over quinquennial periods from 1890.

The service in the departments comprises brigades, which are actually engaged in guarding the frontiers, and a clerical staff (service de bureau) entrusted with the collection of the duties.

This was the first of the many rich discoveries in the same district which have made Western Australia the chief gold-producer of the Australian group. In 1907 there were eighteen goldfields in the state, and it was estimated that over 30,000 miners were actively engaged in the search for gold.

A considerable number of men are engaged in the various states on alluvial fields, in hydraulic sluicing, and dredging is now adopted for the winning of gold in river deposits.

Over 70,000 men are employed in the gold-mining industry, more than two-thirds of them being engaged in quartz mining.

The number of vessels engaged in the over-sea trade of Australia in 1905 was 2112, viz.

During the last few years of his life Boole was constantly engaged in extending his researches with the object of producing a second edition of his Differential Equations much more complete than the first edition; and part of his last vacation was spent in the libraries of the Royal Society and the British Museum.

It is noticed that labourers employed in deep mines worked by shafts suffer less from fever than do those who are engaged in stripping the alluvial deposits.

The wool-growing industry has been almost entirely destroyed by the competition of Australia and the West, and the people are now engaged mainly in dairy-farming, timbering, graniteand marble-quarrying, and in keeping summer boarders.

If that authority falls to nothing,"he said," nothing can follow but confusion."The Presbyterians, however, now engaged in a plan for restoring the king under their own control, and by the means of a Scottish army, forced on their policy, and on the 27th of May ordered the immediate disbandment of the army, without any guarantee for the payment of arrears.

Rumford was engaged in superintending the boring of cannon in the military arsenal at Munich, and was struck by the amount of heat produced by the action of the boring bar upon the brass castings.

As the cost of the service varies in proportion to the amount of use, the toll rate is more scientific, and it has the further advantage of discouraging the unnecessary use of the instrument, which causes congestion of traffic at busy hours and also results in lines being " engaged " when serious business calls are made.

This was the man she loved, and they were engaged.

They sparred lightly until her body grew warm and her mind engaged.