Adjective

(en adjective)

Devoted; loyal; conscientious.

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Adjective

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Agreed to be married.

Busy or employed.

(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 .

(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway

(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation