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delude en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈluːd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /dɪˈljuːd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • /dɪˈluːd/ (US)
  • /dəˈluːd/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English deluden, borrowed from Latin dēlūdō (“mock, deceive”), from de + lūdō (“to make sport of, to mock”). See ludicrous.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
    • Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
    • To delude the nation by an airy phantom. 1775, Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America:
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To frustrate or disappoint.
    • It deludes thy search. c. 1680, John Dryden, Dido to Aeneas:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
deludes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
deluding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
deluded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
deluded Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

deludingly · deludee · delusive · undelude · deludable · deluder

Relateds

delusion · elude · allude · delusional · deluded · illude

Synonyms

mislead (to deceive) · deceive (to deceive) · lull (to deceive)

Translations (26)

nl misleiden (to deceive) · hu félrevezet (to deceive) · nl begoochelen (to deceive) · de täuschen (to deceive) · hu becsap (to deceive) · oc enganar (to deceive) · it illudere (to deceive) · ro amăgi (to deceive) · es deludir (to deceive) · de irreführen (to deceive) · bg заблуждавам (to deceive) · got 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to deceive) · ca enganyar (to deceive) · es engañar (to deceive) · hu megtéveszt (to deceive) · cs oklamat (to deceive) · cs šálit (to deceive) · nl bedriegen (to deceive) · fr tromper (to deceive) · fr tricher (to deceive) · it ingannare (to deceive) · ro înșela (to deceive) · ml കബളിപ്പിക്കുക (to deceive) · sv vilseleda (to deceive) · ne छक्याउनु (to deceive) · cs ošálit (to deceive)