Word Meaning

Meaning of "engaged" and the crossword clue

- Connect (gears)
- Employ
- Hire (employee)
- Hire nag? Gee, that’s a change
- Involve intensely
- Join battle with
- Participate or become involved in
- Secure for employment
- Secure services of inside leg? Agnes taken aback!
- Betrothed
- Busy
- Busy or occupied
- Employed
- Employed to break egg, Dean?
- Hired
- Pledged to be married
- Spoken for
- Tied up (in a meeting)
- To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.
- To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
- To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
- To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
- To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
- To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.
- To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
- To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
- To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
- To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
- of Engage
- Occupied; employed; busy.
- Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
- Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
- Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.