All 6 Uses

engage
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Into Thin Air
(Edited)

Then, in 1921, the British embarked on their first expedition to Everest, and their decision to engage Sherpas as helpers sparked a transformation of Sherpa culture.
Chpt 4

engage = involve
I arrived back at our own camp to find Rob, Dr. Caroline Mackenzie, and Scott Fischer's doctor, Ingrid Hunt, engaged in a tense radio conversation with someone higher on the mountain.
Chpt 8

engaged = involved
Most of us were simply wrapped too tightly in the grip of summit fever to engage in thoughtful reflection about the death of someone in our midst.
Chpt 11 *

engage = participate (take part)
Andy's encounter with the falling rock was very much on my mind every time I unclipped from the line to move around somebody even a small projectile would be enough to send me to the bottom of the face if it struck while I was disengaged from the rope.
Chpt 12 *

disengaged = not connected

standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disengaged means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of engaged as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
My attempts to engage him in conversation went nowhere.
Chpt 13

engage = involve
I felt drugged, disengaged, thoroughly insulated from external stimuli.
Chpt 13

disengaged = uninvolved

standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disengaged means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of engaged as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.

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