Amuse

Word AMUSE
Character 5
Hyphenation a muse
Pronunciations /əˈmjuːz/

Definitions and meanings of "Amuse"

What do we mean by amuse?

To hold the attention of or occupy in an agreeable fashion. transitive verb

To cause to laugh or smile by being funny. transitive verb

To delude or deceive. transitive verb

To cause to muse; absorb or engage in meditation; occupy or engage wholly; bewilder; puzzle.

To keep in expectation, as by flattery, plausible pretenses, and the like; delude; keep in play.

To fix the attention of agreeably; engage the fancy of; cause to feel cheerful or merry; entertain; divert: as, to amuse an audience with anecdotes or tricks, or children with toys.

Synonyms Amuse, Divert, Entertain, Beguile, occupy, please, enliven. Amuse may imply merely the prevention of the tedium of idleness or emptiness of mind: as, I can amuse myself by looking out at the window; or it may suggest a stronger interest: as, I was greatly amused by their tricks. Divert is to turn the attention aside, and (in the use considered here) to something light or mirthful. Entertain is to engage and sustain the attention by something of a pleasing and perhaps instructive character, as conversation; hence the general name entertainment for lectures, exhibitions, etc., designed to interest in this way. “Whatever amuses serves to kill time, to lull the faculties and banish reflection; it may be solitary, sedentary, and lifeless: whatever diverts causes mirth and provokes laughter; it will be active, lively, and tumultuous: whatever entertains acts on the senses and awakens the understanding; it must be rational and is mostly social.” Crabb. Beguile is, figuratively, to cheat one out of weariness, of dull time, etc. The word is as often thus applied to the thing as to the person: as, to beguile a weary hour; to beguile one of his cares.

To muse; meditate.

To muse; to mediate. intransitive verb

To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. transitive verb

To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert. transitive verb

To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. transitive verb

To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. verb

To cause laughter, to be funny. verb

To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. verb

To divert attention, to distract, to bewilder. verb

Make (somebody) laugh verb

Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion verb

To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.

To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.

To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.

To make someone laugh to interest or give pleasure to Urban Dictionary

Having fun, making fun of someone. Urban Dictionary

A face caused by an event in which one or more people try to be funny or amusing, and one or more people on the receiving side give a combination the death stare and vagrancy that simply says "Fuck You, Please Die Now." Urban Dictionary

A synonym for entertainment. Urban Dictionary

When something or someone causes you to smirk inside and out. Also causes you to relive the event. Urban Dictionary

The state of being both in arusal and amused. Sexually arused by something that is also amusing. Urban Dictionary

Amuse - French for appetizer - it relates to taking a bump or pinch. Take a bump of sosa from a key or a credit card. Urban Dictionary

Amusive is a action physically or verbally abusive that when scene or heard is found to be amusing. Urban Dictionary

1. amusing music 2. something so amusing that it should have its own theme music Urban Dictionary

A cute little girl to w’et your…err, um… appetite (derived from the French term of the same name meaning: a small appetizer as served, usually without a charge, in a restaurant) Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Amuse

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The word "amuse" in example sentences

I'd like a little sorbetto made of brain amuse-bouche, amuse-bouche, he will peel you like a mango ❋ Zombaritaville (2009)

"I suppose you will want to, what you call amuse yourself, to see the beasts at Exeter Change, and the playhouses. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Carla Hall Lyons who "amuse" - bouched us with her lovingly prepared culinary creations and hilarious quips. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The amuse was a goat cheese ball, rolled in parsley and resting on a spoon with tart preserves. ❋ Brilynn (2009)

I love the idea of amuse bouche through out the meal... ❋ Etienne (2006)

The amuse was a cucumber with an amazing swirl of what I think was minted cream on top. ❋ Linda (2005)

I am not objecting to the amusement; only to cease to educate in order to amuse is to degenerate. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

The distracted peruke-maker may have had his wrongs -- perhaps such a one as that of poor Triboulet the fool, in "Le Roi s'amuse" -- and his own sound reasons for blowing down the ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

So much did the idea amuse me, that I took to scribbling about it under the trees in the park; and in a few days had made some progress in a poem, in which I had given a description of the place, under the name of Doubting Castle, and personified my uncle as ❋ Unknown (1824)

The amuse is a pâté of arctic char which is smokey, savory, and fishy, served with crispy, slightly bitter parsnip chips. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was concerned that: the Iroquois would "amuse" them with insincere peace proposals to spare their homelands. which would, of course, negate the strategic mission. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think my best efforts to kind of amuse her, well, they fall flat with a lot of people, don't they? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was amused at [the monkey's] [antics]. They amused themselves [playing cards]. ❋ Renato BR (2007)

[Jabs] behavior at parties may have put some people off, but his [amusive] personality always brought [a laugh] and livened up the atmosphere, just at someone else's expense. ❋ DMennen (2010)

I was at [one of those] school presentations and when the [principal] made [a joke], everyone was Not Amused. ❋ Bass Drop Donnie (2012)

"I [got some] amusement from [trolling]." ❋ OmfgASquirrel (2009)

The old man that had ant features for a face [lunged] at his mistress and shamelessly [pawed] at her all over while [smothering] his face on her upper body like a dog or a really fat chick over a milk bone. Amusing. ❋ Pkbomba (2009)

[Yaoi] [midgit] porn makes [old man penis] feel amusal. ❋ Tia (2004)

"Hey, D you want an [amuse] before [hitting] [the club]???" ❋ Benderover (2005)

"I can't help [watching] [Jackass] it so [amusive]" ❋ Issential (2008)

1. "[ahh], this new [They Might Be Giants] album is quite amusic." 2. [Freds] 'happy dance' was very amusic. ❋ MSSM (2008)

"Dude, I know ya love those knee-shootin’ [yabos] but there’s such a thing as too big. Now take that little [amuse-bouche]. That quasar has got a nice set of [perts]." ❋ Goose_on_a_roof (2020)

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