engage
/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ verbe B1En français : attirer l'attention, engager, embrayer
- To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To draw into conversation.
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- To enter into conflict with (an enemy). · 1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
- To enter into battle.
- To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive). · They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year.
He/she/it engages · Prétérit engaged · Participe passé engaged · Forme en -ing engaging
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- engage
- He/she/it
- engages
- Prétérit
- engaged
- Participe passé
- engaged
- Forme en -ing
- engaging
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
At present I am only awaiting the return of our colleagues from Tunbridge Wells, where they are at present engaged in trying for a likely owner to the bicycle.”
He had been engaged five years before, when Douglas first came to Birlstone.
“Then you were aware of Dantès being engaged in a conspiracy?”
Douglas in a boarding house in London, did you not, and became engaged to him there?
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