English Dictionary

engaged

/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/

adj

Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other. / Busy or employed. / Greatly interested.

She is engaged to be married.

意味（1）

Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.

意味（2）

Busy or employed.

意味（3）

Greatly interested.

意味（4）

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

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

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation

意味（7）

(military) being attacked or attacking

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)

Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.