conspiracy, plot, scheme; liaison, secret love affair
rouse curiosity, fascinate; scheme, plot; engage in an illicit love affair
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Intrigue Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
(v. i.)
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
(v. i.)
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
(v. i.)
The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
(v. i.)
Intricacy; complication.
Intricacy; complication.
(v. i.)
A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
(v. i.)
A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
intrigue
\in*trigue"\, v. t. to fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass. [obs.] how doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives! j. scott.
intrigue
\in*trigue"\, n. [cf. f. intrique. see intrigue, v. i.]
1. intricacy; complication. [obs.] m. hale.
2. a complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. busy meddlers with intrigues of state.
3. the plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
4. 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.
A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways.
Noun
1. a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
(synonym) machination
(hypernym) plot, secret plan, game
(hyponym) priestcraft
(derivation) scheme, connive
2. a clandestine love affair
(hypernym) love affair, romance
Verb
1. cause to be interested or curious
(synonym) fascinate
(hypernym) matter to, interest
(hyponym) grab, seize
2. form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
(synonym) scheme, connive
(hypernym) plot
(derivation) machination
Intrigue Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Intrigue is a Sámi band formed in 1989 in Kárášjohka Karasjok, Norway, that sings in North Sami and English.
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