to engage

Examples

• All

• In the days leading up to what would become her historic vanishing act, it was rumored that 18-year-old Justine Waters had just become engaged to Prince Achmed Mustafi of Jordan.

  Columbus Circle (2012)

• Once, not long after we got engaged, we were in New York.

  Academic text (2011)

• So I would leave for six months, come back, got engaged, leave for six months, came back, got married.

  Ryan Pineda

• You guys, uh... you are engaged, though, right?

  No Looking Back (1998)

• We got engaged the day before I left.

  Rescue Dawn (2007)

• My mom met him six months after the murder, and they got engaged and married real quick.

  Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

• Two years previously, she had been engaged to him for several months.

  Academic text (1994)

• " Aunt May told me that you were engaged to be married."

  Fiction book (1993)

• I'm a newly engaged woman, remember?

  Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)

• I was engaged, but...

  Wicked Little Letters (2024)

Synonyms

B

to betroth

vsto engage

• Archaic

5 9.6

To promise two people will marry each other in the future

is the archaic form less used in modern language for arranging marriages

A

to affiance

vsto engage

• Archaic

1 9.9

To formally promise that two people will marry

is the older archaic term used historically for arranging marriages

Idioms

E

to engage your brain

• Informal

1 4.2

Think carefully before you speak or act

Phrasal Verbs

E

to engage in banter

• Informal

1 4.8

Take part in friendly playful talk that makes jokes and teases

E

to engage their fans

1 3.5

To talk to and share things with fans to keep them interested

How Formal

to engage

• Archaic

1 9.9

to betroth

• Archaic

5 9.6

promise

∞ 1.0

to get hitched with

• Informal

1 7.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology