Usually means: Arouse curiosity or interest secretly.
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  1. intrigue: Merriam-Webster
  2. intrigue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intrigue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intrigue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intrigue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intrigue, intrigue: Wordnik
  7. intrigue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intrigue: Wiktionary
  9. intrigue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intrigue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intrigue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Intrigue, intrigue: Dictionary.com
  13. intrigue (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. intrigue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Intrigue (Revenge), Intrigue (band), Intrigue (solitaire), Intrigue, The Intrigue (painting), The Intrigue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Intrigue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. intrigue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. intrigue: Rhymezone
  19. Intrigue, intrigue (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. intrigue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. intrigue: FreeDictionary.org
  22. intrigue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. intrigue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. intrigue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. intrigue: Legal dictionary

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  1. Intrigue: Encyclopedia

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  1. intrigue: Idioms

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  1. Intrigue: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See intrigued as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
noun:  The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
noun:  Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
verb:  (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
verb:  (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
verb:  (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
verb:  (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.

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