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amuses | amuser |

As a verb amuses

is .

As a noun amuser is

someone who amuses.

amuses

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Verb

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  • (amuse)

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    amuse

    English

    Verb

  • To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.
    • I watch these movies because they amuse me.
    It always amuses me to hear the funny stories why people haven't got a ticket, but I never let them get in without paying.
  • * Gilpin
    • A group of children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake.
  • To cause laughter, to be funny.
  • (archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
  • * Johnson
    • He amused his followers with idle promises.
  • (archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
  • * Holland
    • Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold.
  • * Fuller
    • Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house.

    Synonyms

    * entertain, gratify, please, divert, beguile

    Derived terms

    * amusement

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    amuser

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who amuses.
  • (obsolete) One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief.
  • One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them.
  • * 1993 , Stella Cameron; Only by Your Touch , Harpercollins, page 88:
    • He should have knowed better than to tangle with you, Miss Lindsay. Where did you learn to be an amuser , then?
  • * 2002 , various authors, Gangs of New York (film), Miramax Films, Entertainment Film Distributors:
    • BOSS TWEED — No one important, necessarily. Average men will do. Back alley amusers with no affiliations.
  • * 2013 , Michelle Lovric; The Remedy'', Bloomsbury, page 59 :
    • Valentine watches the bunch of amusers close around the politician, the leader already dipping into his pocket for the snuff to fling into the eyes of their victim.

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