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Antonyms for engages


Grammar : Verb
Spell : en-geyj
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈgeɪdʒ



Definition of engages

Origin :
  • early 15c., "to pledge," from Middle French engagier, from Old French en gage "under pledge," from en "make" + gage "pledge," through Frankish from Proto-Germanic *wadiare "pledge" (see wed).
  • It shows the common evolution of Germanic -w- to French -g-; cf. Guillaume from Wilhelm). Meaning "attract the attention of" is from 1640s; that of "employ" is from 1640s, from notion of "binding as by a pledge." Specific sense of "promise to marry" is 1610s (implied in engaged).
  • verb hire for job, use
  • verb occupy oneself; engross
  • verb promise to marry
  • verb start a fight; attack
  • verb interconnect; bring into operation
Example sentences :
  • I've brought another, which engages to give every satigefaction.'
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • This shall be the second law: He who engages in retail trade must be either a metic or a stranger.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • He engages in the raising of chickens, hogs, cattle, and horses.
  • Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy
  • Not done with: he engages to surpass All yet performed in Ireland.
  • Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke
  • In this story it is the new navy, with all of its progress and development, which engages our attention.
  • Extract from : « Breaking Away » by Oliver Optic
  • Neptune engages on the Grecian side, and the battle proceeds.
  • Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer (1873) » by Homer
  • Engages with friends to search South Sea Islands for treasures.
  • Extract from : « The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen » by Roger Finlay
  • He engages at his own expense an artist at 200 pounds a year to go with him.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I (of II) » by Charles Darwin
  • The man who engages in it is stamped with everlasting infamy.
  • Extract from : « Select Temperance Tracts » by American Tract Society
  • For the moment, the problem that engages our attention is of a psychological order.
  • Extract from : « Creative Evolution » by Henri Bergson

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