Engaged vs Indulged - What's the difference?
engaged | indulged |
(engage)
Agreed to be married.
Busy or employed.
(British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
(indulge)
: To yield to a temptation or desire.
To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
* Atterbury
To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.
To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between engaged and indulged
is that engaged is past tense of engage while indulged is past tense of indulge.As an adjective engaged
is agreed to be married.engaged
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- I tried calling, but she (''or'' her phone) was engaged .
Synonyms
* (of a telephone) (US) busySee also
* (agreed to be married)Statistics
*indulged
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *indulge
English
Verb
(indulg)- He looked at the chocolate but didn't indulge .
- I indulged in drinking on the weekend.
- Grandma indulges the kids with sweets.
- I love to indulge myself with beautiful clothes.
- Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.
- to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations
- persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners
- Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light / Indulge , dread Chaos, and eternal Night!