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Definition of amuse in English: amuseverbəˈmjuːzəˈmjuz [with object]1Cause (someone) to find something funny. 逗乐，逗笑 he made faces to amuse her Example sentencesExamples - I think that sort of amuses me, though it makes me happy that people are so intrigued by this so far.
- Read the application (in particular question 4 amuses me).
- I wake up, then the dog wakes up and hops up into the bed, and then Adam wakes up and I lean over and whisper ‘Honey, it's time,’ just because it amuses me, even though I know this may someday come back to haunt me.
- He is very easy to cook for, he always amuses me with his quirky sense of humour and I enjoy being in his company and miss him awfully whenever he is working a different shift then I am.
- I don't mind it when people's heads roll off their shoulder and land against mine, because the way they snort awake suddenly and realise what position they're in amuses me.
- I'm glad you like it, the name thing amuses me every time as well.
- Don't ask how I found this out, but it amuses me immensely.
- This will be my ninth year of study, so enrolment doesn't faze me, mammoth queues don't test my patience too much, and the excited chatter of first years mildly amuses me.
- She amuses me; she'll sit on my computer desk, and if she sees my mouse on the keyboard tray, even slightly, she'll smack it so that it goes flying back under the desktop, usually far enough so that it lands on the CPU underneath.
- One thing which amuses me - and I may have mentioned some of this before - is that I can recall when movie and TV studios used to prosecute collectors who had old footage from their shows and movies.
- We were delightfully amused by the cops who came onto the beach to check everyone for booze.
- Alicia's polite and cheerful demeanor amuses the man, and he begins to chuckle until the tender sparkle in her eye renders him silent.
- I think I've posted this one, but it still amuses me.
- If wackiness amuses you, this is a ‘Don't miss’.
- It amuses me that after posting an essay in which I tried (amongst other things) to make a point that passion is more important than style, there were those who would criticize me for the style in which I wrote it.
- Incidentally, one of the responses I've been getting to the book's that a lot of people think it's very funny, and some people see it as a series of antic actions and antic behavior that really amuses some people and makes them laugh.
- If you need a quick gag to lighten up your day and the thought of people with glasses getting rubber balls mashed into their skulls amuses you I thoroughly recommend this flick as it delivers the ridiculous comedic goods.
- It's a persistent bother, but that always amuses me.
- But while absurd wordplay amuses me to no end in film, in books, in conversation and on merchandise, there's a point at which even I am no longer amused.
- Unless something amuses me or I happen to be blissfully happy, I'm not usually smiling.
2Provide interesting and enjoyable occupation for (someone); entertain. 为（某人）提供消遣;娱乐 they amused themselves digging through an old encyclopedia 他们通过钻研一本旧百科全书来自娱。 the hotel has planned many activities to amuse its guests Example sentencesExamples - I had totally forgotten about it, so have amused myself for a few minutes looking at the search strings.
- Here she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table, where the woman had placed a plateful of water.
- Who needs a doting husband anyway when you've got money, malls and lots of petty activities to amuse you?
- There are plenty of high ropes activities in the trees to amuse you here.
- We amused ourselves by throwing stones at these protrusions as we meandered along the path.
- Children were kept amused by entertainers Crystal and Dandelion who did face painting and put on a music show.
- They claim it will achieve its goals to welcome, accommodate, entertain and amuse visitors.
- I amused myself by ripping bits of paper off the corner of my finished worksheet.
- ‘I'll spend two or three hours filming and editing whatever amuses me that day,’ he says.
- Is it some sort of enjoyable moviegoing experience that is here to amuse you?
- In a couple of minutes, I can whip out jumping frogs or hungry mouths that amuse kids for hours.
- There will also be a circus entertainer on hand to amuse the youngsters.
- There I stayed in the union bar for a few hours amusing myself with a few friends playing table football.
- Have I been put here to entertain you or amuse you, is your life that boring?
- The Australians never really cottoned on to the idea that sport was a way in which gentlemen amused themselves.
- Apart from obviously amusing the director himself, it is about as entertaining as a high heel in the back.
- To read it is like spending hours with an erudite conversationalist who is disposed to amuse you.
- If you can tear yourself away from the hotel and the beach, you will find plenty of other activities to amuse you.
- Camie and I amused ourselves very well and dear old Betty was very kind to us, helping us in every way she could think of.
- The family entertainer, she loved to amuse guests by dancing on the dining table.
Synonyms entertain, make laugh, delight, divert, gladden, cheer (up), please, charm, tickle, convulse, beguile, enliven, regale informal tickle someone pink, crack someone up, wow, be a hit with British informal crease someone up occupy, engage, busy, employ, distract, absorb, engross, preoccupy, hold, hold someone's attention, immerse, interest, involve, entertain, divert, beguile
OriginLate 15th century (in the sense 'delude, deceive'): from Old French amuser 'entertain, deceive', from a- (expressing causal effect) + muser 'stare stupidly'. Current senses date from the mid 17th century. In its early senses amuse had more to do with deception than entertainment or humour. Dating from the late 15th century and coming from an Old French word meaning ‘to stare stupidly’ (also the source of to muse), it originally meant ‘to delude or deceive’. In the 17th and 18th centuries to amuse someone usually meant to divert their attention in order to mislead them. In military use it meant to divert the attention of the enemy away from what you really intend to do, so Lord Nelson, wrote in 1796: ‘It is natural to suppose their Fleet was to amuse ours whilst they cross from Leghorn.’ We are not amused is associated with Queen Victoria (1819–1901). It is first recorded in Notebooks of a Spinster Lady (1919) by Caroline Holland—Victoria is supposed to have made the stern put-down in 1900 to a man who had made an inappropriate joke. There is no firm evidence that she said it, though, and her biographer Stanley Weintraub (b.1929) claimed that ‘she was often amused’.
Rhymesabuse, accuse, adieux, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse Definition of amuse in US English: amuseverbəˈmyo͞ozəˈmjuz [with object]1Cause (someone) to find something funny; entertain. 逗乐，逗笑 he made faces to amuse her Example sentencesExamples - Read the application (in particular question 4 amuses me).
- If you need a quick gag to lighten up your day and the thought of people with glasses getting rubber balls mashed into their skulls amuses you I thoroughly recommend this flick as it delivers the ridiculous comedic goods.
- I wake up, then the dog wakes up and hops up into the bed, and then Adam wakes up and I lean over and whisper ‘Honey, it's time,’ just because it amuses me, even though I know this may someday come back to haunt me.
- We were delightfully amused by the cops who came onto the beach to check everyone for booze.
- If wackiness amuses you, this is a ‘Don't miss’.
- I think I've posted this one, but it still amuses me.
- Incidentally, one of the responses I've been getting to the book's that a lot of people think it's very funny, and some people see it as a series of antic actions and antic behavior that really amuses some people and makes them laugh.
- Alicia's polite and cheerful demeanor amuses the man, and he begins to chuckle until the tender sparkle in her eye renders him silent.
- It's a persistent bother, but that always amuses me.
- She amuses me; she'll sit on my computer desk, and if she sees my mouse on the keyboard tray, even slightly, she'll smack it so that it goes flying back under the desktop, usually far enough so that it lands on the CPU underneath.
- I don't mind it when people's heads roll off their shoulder and land against mine, because the way they snort awake suddenly and realise what position they're in amuses me.
- One thing which amuses me - and I may have mentioned some of this before - is that I can recall when movie and TV studios used to prosecute collectors who had old footage from their shows and movies.
- It amuses me that after posting an essay in which I tried (amongst other things) to make a point that passion is more important than style, there were those who would criticize me for the style in which I wrote it.
- I think that sort of amuses me, though it makes me happy that people are so intrigued by this so far.
- I'm glad you like it, the name thing amuses me every time as well.
- Unless something amuses me or I happen to be blissfully happy, I'm not usually smiling.
- Don't ask how I found this out, but it amuses me immensely.
- He is very easy to cook for, he always amuses me with his quirky sense of humour and I enjoy being in his company and miss him awfully whenever he is working a different shift then I am.
- But while absurd wordplay amuses me to no end in film, in books, in conversation and on merchandise, there's a point at which even I am no longer amused.
- This will be my ninth year of study, so enrolment doesn't faze me, mammoth queues don't test my patience too much, and the excited chatter of first years mildly amuses me.
2Provide interesting and enjoyable occupation for (someone) 为（某人）提供消遣;娱乐 they amused themselves digging through an old encyclopedia 他们通过钻研一本旧百科全书来自娱。 the hotel has planned many activities to amuse its guests Example sentencesExamples - Who needs a doting husband anyway when you've got money, malls and lots of petty activities to amuse you?
- I had totally forgotten about it, so have amused myself for a few minutes looking at the search strings.
- Have I been put here to entertain you or amuse you, is your life that boring?
- There I stayed in the union bar for a few hours amusing myself with a few friends playing table football.
- Is it some sort of enjoyable moviegoing experience that is here to amuse you?
- Apart from obviously amusing the director himself, it is about as entertaining as a high heel in the back.
- There will also be a circus entertainer on hand to amuse the youngsters.
- Here she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table, where the woman had placed a plateful of water.
- To read it is like spending hours with an erudite conversationalist who is disposed to amuse you.
- Camie and I amused ourselves very well and dear old Betty was very kind to us, helping us in every way she could think of.
- In a couple of minutes, I can whip out jumping frogs or hungry mouths that amuse kids for hours.
- ‘I'll spend two or three hours filming and editing whatever amuses me that day,’ he says.
- The Australians never really cottoned on to the idea that sport was a way in which gentlemen amused themselves.
- Children were kept amused by entertainers Crystal and Dandelion who did face painting and put on a music show.
- They claim it will achieve its goals to welcome, accommodate, entertain and amuse visitors.
- I amused myself by ripping bits of paper off the corner of my finished worksheet.
- The family entertainer, she loved to amuse guests by dancing on the dining table.
- There are plenty of high ropes activities in the trees to amuse you here.
- If you can tear yourself away from the hotel and the beach, you will find plenty of other activities to amuse you.
- We amused ourselves by throwing stones at these protrusions as we meandered along the path.
Synonyms entertain, make laugh, delight, divert, gladden, cheer, cheer up, please, charm, tickle, convulse, beguile, enliven, regale occupy, engage, busy, employ, distract, absorb, engross, preoccupy, hold, hold someone's attention, immerse, interest, involve, entertain, divert, beguile
OriginLate 15th century (in the sense ‘delude, deceive’): from Old French amuser ‘entertain, deceive’, from a- (expressing causal effect) + muser ‘stare stupidly’. Current senses date from the mid 17th century. |