intrigueverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈtriːɡ/us/ɪnˈtriːɡ/to interest someone a lot, especially by being strange, unusual, or mysterious:
Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
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Making people excited and interested
- absorbed
- animate
- be sb's bag idiom
- breathe (new) life into sth idiom
- captivate
- capture
- catch
- enthuse
- entrance 1
- intoxicate
- occupy
- pulse
- pump
- pump sb up
- reinvigorate
- rivet
- swing
- talk sth up
- whip sth up
- wow factor
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intriguenoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈɪn.triːɡ/us/ˈɪn.triːɡ/(the making of) a secret plan to do something, especially something that will harm another person:
a tale of political intrigue
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Plotting & trapping
- be in league with sb idiom
- cahoots
- catch sb out
- chicanery
- cloak-and-dagger
- conspiratorial
- conspire
- entrap
- entrapment
- hatch
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- plot
- plotter
- put-up job
- scheme
- set-up
- snare
- sting
- stratagem
- trap
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