as in to entertain
to cause (someone) to pass the time agreeably occupied
the older girl amused her four-year-old sister at the family reunion by showing her off to all the relatives
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Recent Examples of amuse
Doomed to amuse audiences through funniness or fear, maybe forever, Dastmalchian can awkwardly hover in a hallway like no other performer.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 May 2025
What if somebody there decides to amuse himself by declaring a moratorium on debt repayments?
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
And the Obama camp, for example, was not amused when Biden's staffers were going around early in his first term and talking about how the American Rescue Plan was so much bigger than Obama's stimulus package back in 2009.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025
What others think sometimes irritates but mostly amuses us.
—Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 6 May 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 May 2025
What if somebody there decides to amuse himself by declaring a moratorium on debt repayments?
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
And the Obama camp, for example, was not amused when Biden's staffers were going around early in his first term and talking about how the American Rescue Plan was so much bigger than Obama's stimulus package back in 2009.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025
What others think sometimes irritates but mostly amuses us.
—Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amuse
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Volta gave demonstrations to scientific institutes across Europe with esteemed attendees, including Napoleon Bonaparte, and entertained audiences in theaters with electric devices.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
26 May 2025
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It's marketed firmly at the latter, a STEM tool designed to educate and entertain children from 6 upwards, who have a burgeoning interest in space.—
Chris McMullen,
Space.com,
24 May 2025
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The group went to dinner after the workout, where both sides remember regaling stories of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant.—
Evan Webeck,
Mercury News,
5 May 2025
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In 2019, Tom Hanks regaled Jimmy Kimmel Live with the story of how he was twice robbed as a 14-year-old vendor at Oakland A’s baseball games.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Amuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amuse. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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