Word Meanings - ENGAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part. (more info) Etym: 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as

Additional info about word: ENGAGE

To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part. (more info) Etym: 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise. "I to thee engaged a prince's word." Shak. 2. To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service. 3. To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw. Good nature engages everybody to him. Addison. 4. To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on. Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage. Pope. Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation. Hawthorne. 5. To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict. A favorable opportunity of engaging the enemy. Ludlow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENGAGE)

• Apply
• Adduce
• use
• employ
• allot
• dedicate
• devote
• exercise
• apportion
• direct
• engage
• Bind
• Fetter
• tie
• fasten
• secure
• lace
• twine
• oblige
• compel
• restrict
• restrain
• Employ
• reapply
• economize
• occupy
• engross
• Gage
• Engage
• bind
• pledge
• pawn
• deposit
• Hire
• commission
• rent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENGAGE)

• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate
• Redeem
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to ENGAGE)

• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• ECONOMIZE
  To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett . Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• BALLOTER
  One who votes by ballot.
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• INTWINE
  To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.