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engaged

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n??e?d?d/, /?n??e?d?d/

Verb

engaged

  1. simple past tense and past participle of engage

Adjective

engaged (not comparable)

  1. Agreed to be married.
  2. Busy or employed.
  3. Greatly interested.
  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.
  5. (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
  6. (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
  7. (military) being attacked or attacking
  8. (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
  9. Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
    • 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature (page 81)
      Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.

Synonyms

  • (of a telephone): (US) busy

Related terms

  • engage
  • engagement

Translations

See also

  • (agreed to be married): fiancée, fiancé

engaged From the web:

  • what engaged means
  • what engaged employees do differently
  • what engaged couples do
  • what engaged you
  • what engaged to be married
  • what's engaged in french
  • what engaged anthropology
  • what's engaged in italian

proposed

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /p???po?zd/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???p??zd/

Verb

proposed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of propose

proposed From the web:

  • what proposed amendment to the u.s. constitution
  • what proposed law in the mid 1800s
  • what proposed mean
  • what proposed the zimmerman note to mexico
  • what proposed the 14th amendment
  • what proposed a unicameral legislature
  • what proposed hierarchy of needs model
  • what proposed the cell theory
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