Definition for
intrigue
– To entangle; involve; cause to be involved or entangled.
– To plot for: scheme for.
– To practise underhand plotting or scheming; exert secret influence for the accomplishment of a purpose; seek to promote one's aims in devious and clandestine ways.
– To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
noun – Intricacy; complication; maze.
noun – Secret or underhand plotting or scheming; the exertion of secret influence for the accomplishment of a purpose.
noun – A clandestine plot; a scheme for entangling others, or for gaining an end by the exertion of secret influence: as, to expose an intrigue.
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