Intrigue vs Combination - What's the difference?
intrigue | combination | Related terms |
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
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The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
An object formed by combining.
A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
(mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
(billiards) A combination shot; a billiard; a shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
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Intrigue is a related term of combination.
As a verb intrigue
is .As a noun combination is
the act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.intrigue
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Alternative forms
* entrigueNoun
(en noun)Verb
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- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!