Entertain vs. Intrigue — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Entertain and Intrigue
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Entertain
Provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment
A tremendous game that thoroughly entertained the crowd
Intrigue
A secret or underhand scheme; a plot.
Entertain
Give attention or consideration to (an idea or feeling)
Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in relations
Intrigue
The practice of or involvement in such schemes
Seized the throne by intrigue.
Entertain
To hold the attention of (someone) with something amusing or diverting.
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Intrigue
A clandestine love affair.
Entertain
To extend hospitality toward
Entertain friends at dinner.
Intrigue
To arouse the interest or curiosity of
Hibernation has long intrigued biologists.
Entertain
To consider; contemplate
Entertain an idea.
Intrigue
To effect or cause to be accepted or rejected by secret scheming or plotting
"Mr. Clay ... was intrigued out of the Presidential nomination" (Parke Godwin).
Entertain
To hold in mind; harbor
Entertained few illusions.
Intrigue
To engage in secret or underhand schemes; plot.
Entertain
(Archaic) To continue with; maintain.
Intrigue
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Entertain
(Obsolete) To employ; hire.
Intrigue
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Entertain
(Obsolete) To give admittance to; receive.
Intrigue
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
Entertain
To show hospitality to guests.
Intrigue
(intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
Entertain
To provide entertainment.
Intrigue
(transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
Entertain
(transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
To entertain friends with lively conversation
The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.
Intrigue
(intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
Entertain
To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
They enjoy entertaining a lot.
Intrigue
(transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
Entertain
(transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
To entertain a proposal
Intrigue
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Entertain
(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
Intrigue
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
Entertain
(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
Intrigue
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives!
Entertain
(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
Intrigue
Intricacy; complication.
Entertain
(obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.
Intrigue
A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Busy meddlers with intrigues of state.
Entertain
(obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
Intrigue
The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
Entertain
To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
Intrigue
A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
The hero of a comedy is represented victorious in all his intrigues.
Entertain
To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained unawares.
Intrigue
A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
Entertain
To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
The weary time she can not entertain.
Intrigue
A clandestine love affair
Entertain
To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
A rumor gained ground, - and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.
Intrigue
Cause to be interested or curious
Entertain
To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
Intrigue
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
Entertain
To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
Entertain
To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
To baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services institutions of the holy Jesus.
Entertain
To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
Entertain
Entertainment.
Entertain
Provide entertainment for
Entertain
Take into consideration, have in view;
He entertained the notion of moving to South America
Entertain
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings);
Bear a grudge
Entertain interesting notions
Harbor a resentment
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