delude
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English deluden, borrowed from Latin dēlūdō (“mock, deceive”), from de + lūdō (“to make sport of, to mock”). See ludicrous.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈluːd/, /dɪˈljuːd/
- (US) IPA(key): /dɪˈluːd/, /dəˈluːd/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːd
Verb
[edit]delude (third-person singular simple present deludes, present participle deluding, simple past and past participle deluded)
- (transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
- 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)[1]:
- 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.
- 1775, Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America:
- To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
- (transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
- c. 1680, John Dryden, Dido to Aeneas:
- It deludes thy search.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to deceive
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]delude
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]dēlūde
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]delude
- Alternative form of deluden
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]delude
- inflection of deludir:
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