How will they amuse the children on a wet afternoon?
Source: tatoeba (26720)
Amuse
//əˈmjuːz//
Synonyms for "amuse" (49 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (24)
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Translations
81 translations across 32 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- ба́віць verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- забаўля́ць verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Bulgarian
3 entries- забавля́вам verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- развлича́м verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- разсмивам verb (to cause laughter)
Catalan
3 entries- distreure verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- divertir verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- entretenir verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Cornish
1 entries- didhana verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Czech
1 entries- bavit verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Dutch
2 entries- amuseren verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- amuseren verb (to cause laughter)
Esperanto
1 entries- amuzi verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Finnish
4 entries- hauskuuttaa verb (to cause laughter)
- huvittaa verb (to cause laughter)
- naurattaa verb (to cause laughter)
- viihdyttää verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
French
1 entries- amuser verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
German
4 entries- amüsieren verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- belustigen verb (to cause laughter)
- erheitern verb (to cause laughter)
- vergnügen verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Hebrew
1 entries- שִׁעֲשֵׁעַ verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Hindi
1 entries- बहलाना verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Hungarian
4 entries- megnevettet verb (to cause laughter)
- mulattat verb (to cause laughter)
- nevettet verb (to cause laughter)
- szórakoztat verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Ido
1 entries- amuzar verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Italian
1 entries- svagare verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Kazakh
1 entries- ойнату verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Latin
2 entries- dēlectō verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- oblectō verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Macedonian
1 entries- забавува verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Mirandese
3 entries- adbertir verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- adbertir verb (to cause laughter)
- antretener verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Māori
4 entries- whakakata verb (to cause laughter)
- whakakatakata verb (to cause laughter)
- whakangahau verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- whakangāoko verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- more verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Old English
1 entries- tǣtan verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Polish
4 entries- bawić verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- bawić verb (to cause laughter)
- rozbawić verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- rozerwać verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Portuguese
3 entries- divertir verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- divertir verb (to cause laughter)
- entreter verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Romanian
1 entries- amuza verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Russian
4 entries- забавля́ть verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- завле́чь verb (archaic: to keep in expectation)
- завлека́ть verb (archaic: to keep in expectation)
- насмеши́ть verb (to cause laughter)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zàbaviti verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- zàbavljati verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- за̀бавити verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- за̀бављати verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Slovak
2 entries- baviť verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- zabávať verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Slovene
1 entries- zabavati verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Spanish
4 entries- distraer verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- divertir verb (to cause laughter)
- embebecer verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- entretener verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Ukrainian
3 entries- ба́вити verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- забавля́ти verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
- розважа́ти verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Welsh
1 entries- diddori verb (to entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The man whose work it is to amuse people who attend a show is an entertainer.
Source: tatoeba (52921)
Many of my friends seem to do nothing but amuse themselves by playing games with games machines.
Source: tatoeba (252005)
Small things amuse small minds.
Source: tatoeba (267605)
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