intrigue
/ˈɪntɹiːɡ/ verb C2- To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
He/she/it intrigues · Past intrigued · Past participle intrigued · -ing form intriguing
Verb forms
- Base form
- intrigue
- He/she/it
- intrigues
- Past
- intrigued
- Past participle
- intrigued
- -ing form
- intriguing
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“Upon my word, you may put it down to my weak nerves or not, but I believe there is some deep political intrigue going on around me, and that for some reason that passes my understanding my life is aimed at by the conspirators.
And yet those strange, peaked roofs and quaint, overhung gables were a fitting covering to grim and terrible intrigue.
“Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue.
It had struck me that it was possible that some love intrigue was on foot.
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