Engages Synonyms and Antonyms

Interconnect; bring into operation
(Verb)
Antonyms:
  1. cancels
  2. disconnects
To enter into conflict with
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. meets
  2. assaults
  3. encounters
  4. battles
To cause to be busy or in use
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. preempts
  2. occupies
  3. monopolizes
Consume all of one's attention or time
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. occupies
  2. captivates
  3. employs
  4. bewitches
  5. engrosses
  6. absorbs
  7. busies
Antonyms:
  1. rejects
  2. declines
  3. refuses
  4. shuns
Engage for service under a term of contract
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. undertakes
  2. agrees
  3. joins
  4. rents
  5. locks
  6. promises
  7. hires
  8. pledges
  9. takes
  10. operates
  11. interlaces
  12. secures
  13. reserves
  14. persuades
  15. participates
  16. charters
  17. occupies
  18. involves
  19. interests
  20. fascinates
  21. enters
  22. entangles
  23. engrosses
  24. fastens
  25. contracts
  26. employs
  27. embarks
  28. conduces
  29. commits
  30. busies
  31. books
  32. binds
  33. betroths
  34. battles
  35. arrests
  36. leases
  37. absorbs
Antonyms:
  1. disengages
  2. yields
  3. surrenders
Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wages
  2. pursues
  3. partakes
  4. participates
  5. prosecutes
  6. indulges
To occupy
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. occupies
  2. interests
  3. involves
  4. employs
To cause to be set aside, as for one's use, in advance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. reserves
  2. books
  3. bespeaks
Give to in marriage
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. betroths
To arrange for the use of; reserve:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. books

Words Related to Engages

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Engages Sentence Examples

  • Whatever the obligations of the state towards the ecclesiastical society may be in pure theory, in practice they become more precise and stable when they assume the nature of a bilateral convention by which the state engages itself with regard to a third party.

  • Thus, he engages in combat with Heracles on two occasions to avenge the death of his son Cycnus; once Zeus separates the combatants by a flash of lightning, but in the second encounter he is severely wounded by his adversary, who has the active support of Athena; maddened by jealousy, he changes himself into the boar which slew Adonis, the favourite of Aphrodite; and stirs up the war between the Lapithae and Centaurs.

  • The national council engages in mission work on a large scale, and a considerable number of periodicals, hymn-books for special occasions, and works of different kinds explaining the history and ideals of the Evangelical Free Churches have been published.

  • The pastoral industry dates from colonial times and engages the services of a considerable number of people, but its comparative importance is not great.

  • In Plato's Parmenides, Socrates, "then very young," meets Parmenides, "an old man some sixty-five years of age," and Zeno, "a man of about forty, tall and personable," and engages them in philosophical discussion.

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