engage /in(g)- or en(g)-gājˈ/

1. To bind by a promise
2. To secure for service, ensure the services of
3. To enlist
4. To win over or attract
5. To betroth
6. To book or reserve
7. To hold or occupy
8. To begin an action against (military)
9. To fasten (architecture)
10. To interlock
11. To entangle (archaic)
12. To render liable (obsolete)
13. To pledge (obsolete)

1. To promise
2. To become bound
3. To take part
4. To become occupied or involved
5. To begin an action (military)
6. To interlock

engagedˈ adjective

1. Pledged
2. Promised, esp in marriage
3. Greatly interested
4. Taken or booked
5. Occupied
6. Partly built or sunk into, or so appearing (architecture)
7. Geared together or interlocked
8. (of literature or a writer) committed (cf engagé)

engageˈment noun

1. The act of engaging
2. The state of being engaged
3. Something that engages or binds
4. Betrothal
5. Promise
6. Appointment
7. Employment
8. A fight or battle
9. Commitment (cf engagé)

engāgˈer noun

1. Someone who engages in any sense
2. (with cap) an adherent of the Engagement of 1647, a secret treaty between Charles I and the Scottish Commissioners (historical)

engāgˈing adjective

Charming, winning or attractive

engāgˈingly adverb

engāgˈingness noun

engaged tone or engaged signal noun

A repeated long note that informs a telephone caller that the dialled number is engaged

engagement ring noun

A ring given esp by the man to the woman as a token of their engagement to marry

engage for (archaic)

To answer for

• ducking-stool
• ducking-stools
• duck-legged
• duckling
• ducklings
• duckmole
• duckmoles
• duck out of
• duck-pond
• duck-ponds
• ducks
• duck's arse
• duck's-foot
• duck-shot
• duck-shots
• duckshove
• duckshoved
• duckshover
• duckshovers
• duckshoves
• duckshoving
• duck's-meat
• duck soup
• duck soups
• duck-tail