engaged
/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/ adjective B1- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Busy or employed.
- Greatly interested.
- attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- in contact and in operation
- being attacked or attacking
- Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
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The looks and behaviour of everybody they had seen were discussed, except of the person who had mostly engaged their attention.
THE MEMBERS of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, “Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?” The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly.
“Then you were aware of Dantès being engaged in a conspiracy?”
They fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat.
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