v.
  - make (someone) laugh or smile.
 - provide interesting occupation for; entertain.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - amused adj.
  - amusedly adv.
  - amusing adj.
  - amusingly adv.
 
   
  Etymology
  C15 (in the sense ‘deceive’): from OFr. amuser ‘entertain, deceive’, from a- (expressing causal effect) + muser ‘stare stupidly’.