engage

To interact socially.

Thus ſhall mankind his guardian care engage, / The promis'd father of the future age.

To interact socially.

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.

To interact socially.

This humanity and good nature engages every body to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them all his family are in a good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with: […]

To interact antagonistically.

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.

To interact antagonistically.