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engage in

engage in verb: to start performing (an activity).

Verb

engage in (third-person singular simple present engages in, present participle engaging in, simple past and past participle engaged in)

  1. (transitive) To start performing (an activity).
    • We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    start, begin

engage in meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit

engage in in Tamil

கையிசுவாதம், ஏல்

engage in in Sanskrit

to engage in
जानाति jānā́ti

Synonyms of engage in

Forms of engage in

third-person singular presentengages in
present participleengaging in
past participleengaged in
pastengaged in

Questions about engage in

What does engage in mean?
Engage in means to start performing (an activity).
What is engage in in Tamil?
Engage in in Tamil is கையிசுவாதம், ஏல். See Engage in meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is engage in?
Engage in is a verb.
What is the past tense of engage in?
The past tense of engage in is engaged in.

Words near engage in in the dictionary

  1. Engadin
  2. Engadine
  3. engag'd
  4. engagable
  5. engage
  6. engage in
  7. engageable
  8. engageante
  9. engageantes
  10. engaged
  11. engaged column

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engage in (page history and authors); engage in (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); जानाति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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