Usually means: Entertains or engages in playful manner.
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  1. amuses: Merriam-Webster
  2. amuses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. amuses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Amuses, amuses: Wordnik
  5. amuses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. amuses: Wiktionary
  7. amuses: Dictionary.com
  8. amuses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. amuses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. amuses: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (amuse)

verb:  (transitive) To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions.
verb:  To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
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