engaged

adjective9

1. •
   Busy or employed.

   • Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this? — 1984
2. •
   planning to marry someone, as the two of them have agreed
3. •
   (UK) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.

   • I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.
4. •
   Greatly interested.
5. •
   being attacked or attacking
6. •
   in contact and in operation
7. •
   Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).

   • Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics. — 2002
8. •
   Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
9. •
   attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway