engage (someone) to (someone)
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To betroth oneself or someone to someone else; to enter two people into an engagement to be married. I refuse to let my family engage me to a man I've never met before. I can't believe they've engaged Elizabeth to that awful man, simply because he will increase their family's status in this town. I refuse to engage our only daughter to a man she doesn't love!
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engage someone to someone
to betroth someone to someone. Her parents engaged her to the man she ended up marrying. She engaged herself to some guy she met at a singles bar.
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- accompany on a journey
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