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Verb(1) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in(2) consume all of one's attention or time(3) engage or hire for work(4) ask to represent; of legal counsel(5) give to in marriage(6) get caught(7) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns(8) hire for work or assistance(9) engage for service under a term of contract(10) keep engaged(11) carry out or participate in an activity(12) engage or engross wholly(13) ask to represent(14) of legal counsel(15) as of wars(16) battles

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(1) the clutch will not engage(2) Watch out for their weapons, and engage each respectively.(3) she had offered to engage a room in the house of the woman(4) Only an appeal to the broad mass of the people will work and they will only get excited enough to vote if the agenda is radical enough to engage their interest and support.(5) The play area with its ball pit, stuffed toys, comic racks and computer games can surely engage the attention of children irrespective of their ages.(6) Alas, he's too dull to engage any interest at all.(7) If any town, city or district is to thrive it needs to engage the interest and enthusiasm of its younger generation.(8) It is not reasonable that a solicitor should engage to act on for an indefinite number of years, winding up estates, without receiving any payment on which he can maintain himself.(9) It is the themes as much as the plot that engage the interest.(10) They can also combine with the scout platoon to engage enemy targets for hasty attacks and ambushes.(11) the teams needed to engage with local communities(12) Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.(13) Critics are quick to point to the coalition's adherence to the law of armed combat as a reason for the coalition's inability to engage the enemy as necessary.(14) They were not like the modern fairs but were where employers went to engage workers and people went to seek jobs and also to buy things.(15) The problem seems to be that when you direct your forces to attack an enemy unit, they believe that they should attack that specific unit rather than engage the enemy force as a whole.(16) So we have to engage Beijing in a thorough discussion on this matter.
Related Words
(1) engage in
(2) to engage in
(3) engage with
(4) re-engage
(5) engage in a lawsuit
(6) engage in conversation
(7) engage in trade
Synonyms
Verb
1. capture
2. employ
3. contract
4. participate in
5. fight
6. interlock
7. wage
8. affiance
9. occupy
10. enlist
11. take
12. operate
13. pursue


📺 Word Example from TV Shows

I have no desire
to engage in the activity.

I have no desire to ENGAGE in the activity.

The Big Bang Theory Season 4, Episode 20


...has agreed to engage with me
in a gentlemanly battle of wits.

...has agreed to ENGAGE with me in a gentlemanly battle of wits.

The Big Bang Theory Season 6, Episode 6


we couldn't get an army through
to engage them even if we wanted to.

we couldn't get an army through to ENGAGE them even if we wanted to.

Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 8


...so as to engage
the superior colliculus of my brain.

...so as to ENGAGE the superior colliculus of my brain.

The Big Bang Theory Season 3, Episode 14


If the two of you engage in intercourse,
this will create the biochemical reaction...

If the two of you ENGAGE in intercourse, this will create the biochemical reaction...

The Big Bang Theory Season 2, Episode 9


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