engages
Sayin-GAYJ-iz/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of engage.
The professor engages the audience with vivid stories from her fieldwork.
When the lever drops, the gear engages the main shaft and the machine starts.
Note
The -s form covers the whole range of the verb, so the object usually tells you which meaning is meant. An army engages the enemy, a firm engages a worker, a speaker engages a listener, and a pedal engages the clutch. With no object it can mean going into battle, as in the fleet engages at dawn. In older writing it can also mean winning someone over.
engages is a form of engage
engage, verb: To hold or occupy someone's attention; to keep someone busy. Full entry
- Spelling
- engage → engages: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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