All 10 Uses
engage
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Queen of Attolia
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- Whatever her neighboring monarchs thought, she very rarely made hasty decisions, and she didn't engage in violence gratuitously.†
Chpt 2
- I doubt his feelings are deeply engaged.†
Chpt 8
- Sitting in her chair in the moonlight, Attolia thought back over the year of her engagement, which she had spent, as custom demanded, with the family of her future husband.†
Chpt 12
- Those soldiers not engaged in the work of stringing the nets overhead stood in water up to their knees and shivered.†
Chpt 13 *
- Since our recent engagement?†
Chpt 15
- There will be some hasty negotiations, and we'll be engaged, with your barons as witnesses.†
Chpt 16
- There was no complete engagement.†
Chpt 16
- He stepped out into the courtyard to engage his services in sorting out the growing chaos there as Eddisian and Attolian officers and soldiers arrived.†
Chpt 19
- He needed a nursery, not a bride, Attolia thought bitterly, though she herself had been engaged and married even younger.†
Chpt 19
- It was not a comfortable journey, being very hot and very dusty, but no one who had heard the news of Attolia's proposed engagement was unhappy to be on the road while their queen traveled by sea.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(engage as in: engage in conversation) to interact in various ways -- such as to participate, involve, interest, or attractThe exact meaning of this sense of engage depends upon its context. For example:
- "They engaged in debate." -- participated
- "She engaged him in conversation." -- involved
- "She is an engaging conversationalist." -- interesting
- "She has an engaging smile." -- attractive (attracting interest and interaction)
- "The proposal engages the interest of many young voters." -- attracts and involves
- "She engages with her constituents." -- interacts in a meaningful way
- "She engaged in foolish behavior." -- entered into
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(2)
(engage as in: engage her services) hire, reserve, book, or occupy
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(3)
(engaged as in: engaged and then married) promised to marry
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(4)
(engage as in: engage the enemy) begin fighting
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(5)
(engage as in: engage the gears) move into position to work; or start
- (6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)