intrigue
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See also intrigué
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From French, from Italian intricare, from Latin intrico (“to entangle, perplex, embarrass”).
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- (noun) enPR: ĭn'trēg, IPA: /ˈɪntriːɡ/, SAMPA: /"Intri:g/
- (verb) enPR: ĭntrēg', IPA: /ɪnˈtriːɡ/, SAMPA: /In"tri:g/
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intrigue (plural intrigues)
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves his imaginary characters.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
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intrigue (third-person singular simple present intrigues, present participle intriguing, simple past and past participle intrigued)
- (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
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- intrigue in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- intrigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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[edit] Noun
intrigue f. (plural intrigues)
- plot, storyline (of novel, film, etc)
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