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Encaged vs. Engaged — What's the Difference?

Encaged vs. Engaged — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Encaged and Engaged

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Encaged

To confine in or as if in a cage.

Engaged

Busy; occupied.

Encaged

Simple past tense and past participle of encage

Engaged

Having formally agreed to marry
The newly engaged couple
Keith and I had got engaged four months before
She was engaged to a lecturer

Engaged

(of a column) attached to or partly let into a wall.
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Engaged

Employed, occupied, or busy.

Engaged

Committed, as to a cause.

Engaged

Pledged to marry; betrothed
An engaged couple.

Engaged

Involved in conflict or battle.

Engaged

Being in gear; meshed.

Engaged

Partly embedded in, built into, or attached to another part, as columns on a wall.

Engaged

Simple past tense and past participle of engage

Engaged

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

Engaged

Busy or employed.

Engaged

Greatly interested.

Engaged

(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.

Engaged

Attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway

Engaged

(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation

Engaged

(military) being attacked or attacking

Engaged

Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.

Engaged

Synonym of engagé

Engaged

Occupied; employed; busy.

Engaged

Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.

Engaged

Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.

Engaged

Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.

Engaged

Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged;
She keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities
Deeply engaged in conversation

Engaged

Involved in military hostilities;
The desperately engaged ships continued the fight

Engaged

Reserved in advance

Engaged

(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line);
Her line is busy
Receptionists' telephones are always engaged
The lavatory is in use
Kept getting a busy signal

Engaged

(used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting;
The gears are engaged
Meshed gears
Intermeshed twin rotors

Engaged

Having services contracted for;
The carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick

Engaged

Built against or attached to a wall;
Engaged columns

Engaged

Pledged to be married;
The engaged couple

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