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Definition of Amuse
Amuse

To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.

To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.

To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

To muse; to mediate.

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Amuse Quotations

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Arthur Erickson

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.
Marc Davis

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
Joseph Howe

Amuse Translations

amuse in Afrikaans is amuseer
amuse in Dutch is opvrolijken, amuseren, onderhouden
amuse in Finnish is huvittaa
amuse in French is amuser, amusez, amusons, amusent
amuse in Italian is divertire
amuse in Portuguese is diverta
amuse in Spanish is divertir
amuse in Swedish is roa


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