Amuse: Definition and part of speech

Amuse

  1. v. i. To muse; to mediate.
  2. v. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
  3. v. To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.
  4. v. To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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