Engage Engaged ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ Movie Mind Eye Machine Verb

• it is a movie that engages both the mind and the eye.
• their pleas failed to engage any sympathy.
• he is currently engaged as a consultant.
• we will have to engage the services of a translator.

engage

1. to succeed in attracting and keeping somebody’s attention and interest
• It is a movie that engages both the mind and the eye.
• Their pleas failed to engage any sympathy.
2. to employ somebody to do a particular job
• He is currently engaged as a consultant.
• We will have to engage the services of a translator.
3. to become involved with and try to understand something/somebody
• She has the ability to engage with young minds.
4. to begin fighting with somebody
• See related entries: Conflict
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/conflict/engage
• to engage the enemy
5. when a part of a machine engages, or when you engage it, it fits together with another part of the machine and the machine begins to work
• The cogwheels are not engaging.
• One cogwheel engages with the next.
• Engage the clutch before selecting a gear.

Extra Examples

• Our contributors are actively engaging with tradition.
• The army was regularly engaged in combat.
• The party is attempting to engage young voters politically.
• They constructively engage critics in debates.
• We acknowledge the need to engage directly with these problems.
• people who actively engage in shaping the world they live in
• He ordered his men to engage (with) the enemy.
• It’s a movie that engages both the mind and the eye.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they engage
• he / she / it engages
• past simple engaged
• past participle engaged
• -ing form engaging

Word Origin

• late Middle English (formerly also as ingage): from French engager, ultimately from the base of gage, ‘a pledge or deposit offered as a guarantee’. The word originally meant ‘to pawn or pledge something’, later ‘pledge oneself (to do something)’, hence ‘enter into a contract’ (mid 16th cent.), ‘involve oneself in an activity’, ‘enter into combat’ (mid 17th cent.), giving rise to the notion ‘involve someone or something else’.