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AMUSE

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amuse verb A. tranzitiv

1. a distra, a amuza; a desfăta, a face să petreacă sau să râdă;

you amuse me mă faci să râd.

2. (înv.) a amăgi, a înşela.

3. (înv.) a distrage atenţia (inamicului etc.).

amuse verb B. reflexiv

a se distra, a se amuza, a se desfăta, a petrece, a face haz.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But her coming to the table had something amusing in it.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I do frequently; when the gestures or looks of a pair seem telling a tale: it amuses me to watch them.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

With that she soothed herself and amused her friend.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Tilney was very much amused.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Why, it's funny, and amuses people.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I was at first interested and somewhat amused, for it is wonderful how small a matter will interest and amuse a man when he is a prisoner.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

It would amuse away the difficulties of her part, and lessen the irksomeness of Miss Smith's.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“What would she have said? how would she have behaved?” were questions with which she amused herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

If it amuse you to bend it, well and good; but why should I strain and pull, when my little moulinet will do all for me, and better than I can do it for myself?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end; and by this defect, they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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