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intrigued

intrigued is the simple past and past participle of intrigue.

Meaning of intrigue

Verb

intrigue (third-person singular simple present intrigues, present participle intriguing, simple past and past participle intrigued)

  1. (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
  2. (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
    • Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170
  3. (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
  4. (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
    • And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.1533 (date written), Thomas More, “The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance […]. Chapter XVIJ.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […]...

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Forms of intrigued

comparativemore intrigued
superlativemost intrigued

Words formed from intrigued

Questions about intrigued

What is intrigued the simple past and past participle of?
Intrigued is the simple past and past participle of intrigue.

Words near intrigued in the dictionary

  1. intrigo
  2. intrigoes
  3. intriguant
  4. intriguants
  5. intrigue
  6. intrigued
  7. intriguer
  8. intrigueries
  9. intriguers
  10. intriguery
  11. intrigues

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