gaging's Usage Examples:

She looked again at the spinning ground, waiting until she was able to make out a rock formation clearly before engaging the thrusters.

corps; for the left division failed to storm La Haye Sainte, which was most gallantly defended, and Picton's division met the remainder of D'Erlon's corps face to face, engaging them in a murderous infantry duel in which Picton fell.

The Reformation was thus essentially a stage in the disengaging of the modern state from that medieval, international ecclesiastical state which had its beginning in the ecclesia of the Acts of the Apostles.

SIMON NICHOLAS HENRI LINGUET (1736-1794), French journalist and advocate, was born on the 14th of July 1736, at Reims, whither his father, the assistant principal in the College de Beauvais of Paris, had recently been exiled by lettre de cachet for engaging in the Jansenist controversy.

With certain companies engaging in financial shenanigans, investor confidence is at an all-time low.

This body pursued the subject with more or less diligence, and in 1884 laid down the principle that the automatic coupler should be one acting in a vertical plane - that is, the engaging faces should be free to move up and down within a considerable range, in order to provide for the differences in the height of cars.

After Conker has finished his bar business, he's really only got one thing on his mind: Berri, his overwhelmingly physically engaging girlfriend.

Though he duly finished his theological course and was licensed to preach, Brewster's preference for other pursuits prevented him from engaging in the active duties of his profession.

It must still remain true, however, that Jefferson's Ana present him in a far from engaging light.

Moreover, adolescents should receive anticipatory guidance to assist them in defining appropriate options and alternatives to engaging in high-risk behaviors.

Another great series for animal lovers, Henry and Mudge is engaging but written simply and is a great way to start out the second grade year!Mudge, 1885); and Eternal Atonement (1888).

She was taller than Howie but rail thin and possessed an engaging smile, long blond hair and arresting blue eyes.

Synonyms:

blue story, gag line, sick joke, jest, humor, tag line, howler, laugh line, one-liner, witticism, dirty story, humour, riot, scream, funny story, dirty joke, punch line, sight gag, visual joke, funny remark, joke, ethnic joke, wow, blue joke, thigh-slapper, good story, belly laugh, sidesplitter, laugh, wittiness, in-joke, shaggy dog story, wit, jape, funny,

Antonyms:

good humor, order, whisper, cry, stupidity,