engage

1. To interact socially.Examples: "Thus ſhall mankind his guardian care engage, / The promis'd father of the future age."transitive

2. To interact socially.Examples: "the difficult task of engaging him in conversation"; "Shapps refused to engage with the unions and claimed that the industrial disputes were nothing to do with him, despite controlling the purse strings."ambitransitive

3. To interact antagonistically.Examples: "1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy"; "Having failed to become the first warship to shoot down another planet, the fleet would then engage the Italian cruiser screen the next afternoon, with Sydney not scoring any hits on its opposite numbers but managing to damage an Italian destroyer."transitive

4. To interact antagonistically.intransitive

5. To interact contractually.Examples: "For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks."transitive

6. To interact contractually.intransitive