Definition of engage

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Engage (v. t.) To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.

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Engage :: Engage (v. i.) To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
Professional :: Professional (a.) Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur..
Revolutioner :: Revolutioner (n.) One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.
Disinteress :: Disinteress (v. t.) To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage..
Rowdy :: Rowdy (n.) One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow..
On :: On (prep.) By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor..
Occupy :: Occupy (v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
Pledge :: Pledge (n.) 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; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..
Warfarer :: Warfarer (n.) One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.
Open :: Open (a.) Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
Hire :: Hire (n.) To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate..
Submissive :: Submission (n.) An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators.
Moonshiner :: Moonshiner (n.) A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
Engage :: Engage (v. i.) To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle..
Reship :: Reship (v. i.) To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.
Navajoes :: Navajoes (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting New Mexico and Arizona, allied to the Apaches. They are now largely engaged in agriculture..
Disentangle :: Disentangle (v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
Pool :: Pool (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table..
Forepromised :: Forepromised (a.) Promised beforehand; preengaged.
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