interest
verb/ˈɪntrəst/, /ˈɪntrest/
/ˈɪntrəst/, /ˈɪntrest/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they interest | /ˈɪntrəst/, /ˈɪntrest/ /ˈɪntrəst/, /ˈɪntrest/ |
| he / she / it interests | /ˈɪntrəsts/, /ˈɪntrests/ /ˈɪntrəsts/, /ˈɪntrests/ |
| past simple interested | /ˈɪntrəstɪd/, /ˈɪntrestɪd/ /ˈɪntrəstɪd/, /ˈɪntrestɪd/ |
| past participle interested | /ˈɪntrəstɪd/, /ˈɪntrestɪd/ /ˈɪntrəstɪd/, /ˈɪntrestɪd/ |
| -ing form interesting | /ˈɪntrəstɪŋ/, /ˈɪntrestɪŋ/ /ˈɪntrəstɪŋ/, /ˈɪntrestɪŋ/ |
- to attract your attention and make you feel interested; to make yourself give your attention to something
- interest somebody Politics doesn't interest me.
- The museum has something to interest everyone, young and old.
- interest somebody/yourself in something She has always interested herself in charity work.
- it interests somebody to do something It may interest you to know that Andy didn't accept the job.
Extra Examples- It is this aspect of the work that really interests me.
- She tried to interest the director in her plan.
- She has always interested herself in helping younger musicians.
- The topic interests me very much.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- greatly
- particularly
- really
- …
- try to
Word Originlate Middle English (originally as interess): from Anglo-Norman French interesse, from Latin interesse ‘differ, be important’, from inter- ‘between’ + esse ‘be’. The -t was added partly by association with Old French interest ‘damage, loss’, apparently from Latin interest ‘it is important’. The original sense was ‘the possession of a share in or a right to something’; hence sense (6). Sense (1) and the verb arose in the 18th cent. Sense (4) was influenced by medieval Latin interesse ‘compensation for a debtor's defaulting’.
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