amuse

1. (transitive) To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions.Examples: "I watch these movies because they amuse me."; "It always amuses me to hear the funny stories why people haven't got a ticket, but I never let them get in without paying."; "A group of children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake."transitive

2. (transitive, archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.archaictransitive

3. (transitive, archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.Examples: "Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house."; "the enemies were amused on the fires that our men made"; "Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the Face or Head, but on the Back, and not in Men but Children, as I long ago observed in that Endemial Distemper of little Children in Languedock, called the Morgellons, […]"archaictransitive