Definition of "engaged" in English

verb

1. simple past and past participle of engage

adjective

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

2. Busy or employed.

3. Greatly interested.

4. (British) (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”).