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# amuse

«amuse» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make them laugh or smile** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (amuse, amuses, amused, amusing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To amuse someone is to make them laugh or smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#m1)

2) To amuse someone is to keep them busy and interested so they do not get bored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and stories: «amuse yourself», «keep the baby amused», «not amused» (annoyed). Adjective «amusing» (funny), noun «amusement» (amusement park, arcade).

### examples

- The clown amused the children with silly tricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#x1)
- Her joke amused the whole class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#x2)
- We amused ourselves with card games on the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#x3)
- The toys kept the baby amused for an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#x4)
- The teacher was not amused when the frog jumped out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#x5)
- Dad's funny voices always amuse me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#x6)
- “Now let us see what we can do to amuse ourselves.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. «Amused» = feeling something is funny; «amusing» = causing laughter. «Not amused» is a polite way to say «annoyed».

### In the corpora

- [It amuses you and it doesn't hurt me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «amuse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amuse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.