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sich engagieren — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • commit verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
  • involve verb To include something as a necessary part.

Senses

sich engagieren is used for these senses in English:

  • commit (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
  • involve To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.

commit — full definition

  1. verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
  2. verb To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action.
  3. verb To save a set of changes permanently, especially in software or version control.

involve — full definition

  1. verb To include something as a necessary part.
  2. verb To bring someone into a situation so that they take part or are affected.

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