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Overview of verb amuse

The verb Amuse1.) Amuse, divert, disport -- (occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies")

2.) Amuse -- (make (somebody) laugh; "The clown amused the children")

amuse has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

• amuse, Divert1.) Deviate, divert -- (turn aside; turn away from)
  
  2.) Divert -- (send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one)
  
  divert, disport -- (Occupy1.) Inhabit, occupy -- (be present in; be inside of)
  
  2.) Busy, occupy -- (keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection")
  
  occupy in an Agreeable1.) Agreeable -- (conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner")
  
  2.) Accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant, concordant -- (in keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background")
  
  agreeable, entertaining or Pleasant1.) Pleasant -- (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "a pleasant person to be around"; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations")
  
  2.) Pleasant -- (pleasant in manner or behavior; "I didn`t enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around")
  
  pleasant fashion; "The Play1.) Play, drama, dramatic play -- (a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway")
  
  2.) Play -- (a theatrical performance of a drama; "the play lasted two hours")
  
  play amused the ladies")

• amuse -- (Make1.) Brand, make -- (a recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?")
  
  2.) Shuffle, shuffling, make -- (the act of mixing cards haphazardly)
  
  make (somebody) Laugh1.) Laugh, laughter -- (the sound of laughing)
  
  2.) Laugh -- (a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing; "his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision")
  
  laugh; "The Clown1.) Clown, buffoon -- (a rude or vulgar fool)
  
  2.) Clown, buffoon, merry andrew -- (a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior)
  
  clown amused the children")

Overview of adj amusing
      »   The adj amusing has 2 meanings (first 1 from tagged texts)

• amusing, Amusive1.) Amusing, amusive, diverting, fun -- (providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"; "a fun thing to do")
  
  amusive, diverting, Fun1.) Fun, merriment, playfulness -- (activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around")
  
  2.) Fun, play, sport -- (verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport")
  
  fun -- (Providing1.) Supply, provide, render, furnish -- (provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater")
  
  2.) Provide, supply, ply, cater -- (provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests")
  
  providing enjoyment; Pleasantly1.) Pleasantly, cheerily, sunnily -- (in a cheerful manner; "`I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly")
  
  2.) Pleasantly, agreeably, enjoyably -- (in an enjoyable manner; "we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon")
  
  pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a Diverting1.) Deviate, divert -- (turn aside; turn away from)
  
  2.) Divert -- (send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one)
  
  diverting story"; "a Fun1.) Fun, merriment, playfulness -- (activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around")
  
  2.) Fun, play, sport -- (verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport")
  
  fun thing to do")

• amusing, Comic1.) Comedian, comic -- (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
  
  1.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  comic, comical, Funny1.) Funny story, good story, funny remark, funny -- (an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny")
  
  1.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  funny, laughable, Mirthful1.) Gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful -- (full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh")
  
  2.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  mirthful, risible -- (Arousing1.) Arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke -- (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy")
  
  2.) Wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken -- (stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock")
  
  arousing or Provoking1.) Arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke -- (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy")
  
  2.) Provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up -- (evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple")
  
  provoking laughter; "an amusing Film1.) Movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick -- (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location")
  
  2.) Film, cinema, celluloid -- (a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events")
  
  film with a Steady1.) Sweetheart, sweetie, steady, truelove -- (a person loved by another person)
  
  1.) Steady, calm, becalm -- (make steady; "steady yourself")
  
  steady stream of Pranks1.) Buffoonery, clowning, japery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank -- (acting like a clown or buffoon)
  
  2.) Antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on -- (a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement)
  
  pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a Comic1.) Comedian, comic -- (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
  
  1.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  comic hat"; "a Comical1.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  comical look of surprise"; "Funny1.) Funny story, good story, funny remark, funny -- (an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny")
  
  1.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  funny stories that Made1.) Make, do -- (engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution")
  
  2.) Make, get -- (give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear")
  
  made everybody laugh"; "a very Funny1.) Funny story, good story, funny remark, funny -- (an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny")
  
  1.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  funny writer"; "it would have been Laughable1.) Absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous -- (incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous")
  
  2.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  laughable if it hadn't Hurt1.) Injury, hurt, harm, trauma -- (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
  
  2.) Distress, hurt, suffering -- (psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress")
  
  hurt so much"; "a Mirthful1.) Gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful -- (full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh")
  
  2.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  mirthful experience"; "Risible1.) Amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible -- (arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics")
  
  risible courtroom antics")