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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
  • Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
  • The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves his imaginary characters.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
  • intransitive To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
  • transitive To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.

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