Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

zabawić in English:

1. amuse


His joke amused everybody.
Doing jigsaws would amuse Amy for hours on end.
My funny drawings amused the kids.
You amuse me.
The tightrope amuses the children.
amused - rozbawiony
Small things amuse small minds.
Many of my friends seem to do nothing but amuse themselves by playing games with games machines.
The man whose work it is to amuse people who attend a show is an entertainer.
Her anecdotes amuse us all.
He amused us by his anecdotes
I'm waiting for you, so I have to amuse myself.
The hotel has planned many activities to amuse its guests.
to amuse o.s. with sth/by doing sth
Everybody laughed but I couldn’t understand what had amused them.

2. entertain


I've just made it up to entertain you.
I cannot entertain such a request.
The clown was entertaining the children.
My cat is very anxious to entertain me.
Now let me entertain you with music.
I like to entertain myself by chatting on the web.
zabawiać We hired a clown to entertain the children 2... to invite someone to be your guest and give them food, drink, etc We don't entertain as much as we used to. We love to entertain friends at home.
people who are willing to entertain ideas that are kind of off the beaten track.
A good lesson should teach and entertain at the same time
You always entertain me.
Poland’s newly appointed defence minister has been condemned for entertaining the possibility that a fraudulent document claiming to show there is a Jewish plan for world domination may be real.
Do businesspeople entertain businesspeople at the weekend?
Our babysitter knows a lot of ways to entertain kids.
The company had incurred $37,000 in expenses entertaining a client.
He is a retired man who volunteers to entertain patients in hospitals.

English word "zabawić"(entertain) occurs in sets:

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