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engage

verb as in promise to marry

verb as in start a fight; attack

verb as in interconnect; bring into operation

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Example Sentences

An engagé then knelt upon him to put on the harness, but when this was done he discovered that he had killed the poor dog.

In one of our hospitals was a young lad of seventeen, who had managed to enlist as an "engagé volontaire" by lying as to his age.

He was at this time twenty-six years old, and had formerly been an engagé of the Jesuits.

Tis true he served you, and was your engagé on the voyage hither.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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