engage

Other forms of engage

past tense

engaged·

present participle

engaging·

third person

engages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about engage

What does engage mean?

engage means "carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in engage?

engage has 2 syllables: en-gage. The stress falls on "gage". In IPA it is /ɛnˈɡeɪdʒ/.

What is another word for engage?

Close synonyms include prosecute, pursue, absorb, engross, occupy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of engage?

The recorded antonyms are disengage, disengage.

Is engage a common word?

engage is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with engage?

3 words rhyme with engage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.