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Entertained by George getting totally ignored (7)

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I believe the answer is:

ghosted

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'totally ignored' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'entertained by george' is the wordplay.
'entertained' becomes 'hosted' (hosting is a kind of entertaining).
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'george' becomes 'g'.
'hosted' put after 'g' is 'GHOSTED'.

'getting' is the link.

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(Other definitions for ghosted that I've seen before include "The gods (anag.)" , "haunted" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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