delude Definition
de·lude (di lo̵̅o̅d′)
transitive verb -·lud′ed, -·lud′·ing
- to fool, as by false promises or wrong notions; mislead; deceive; trick
- Obsolete to elude or frustrate
Etymology: ME deluden < L deludere < de-, from + ludere, to play: see ludicrous
delude Synonyms
delude Usage Examples
Object
- rambling: Cyberpunk, Spirituality and Technology - The Voidspace Blogspot The strange and deluded ramblings of a rather odd person.
- fool: Even the most deluded of deluded optimistic naïve fools on LSD would laugh at that suggestion.
- soul: He tutted at this, and said I was encouraging the self-degradation of deluded souls.
- mind: However could alien abduction simply be a symptom of a deluded mind?
- man: Rejoice, Thou Who dost put to shame the plans of the demons, carried out by deluded men!
- person: Member again; and he trusted that those deluded persons who had assembled on Kennington Common would also withdraw their confidence from him.
Subject
religion: She was a nice lady, but quite deluded by religion.
Modifying Another Word
- sadly: Unfortunately the others were sadly deluded over the best Doctor Who - it's Jon Pertwee, clearly.
- seriously: Posted by: dicky on Aug 12, 04 | 7:41 pm Orlando, are you deliberately doing satans work or seriously deluded?
- totally: I have never been able to find out what these are - I may of course be totally deluded.
- probably: Society at large the two sets strategists probably deluded new york nov.
- completely: Anyone would think that the individual was completely deluded.
- enough: A certain young man was deluded enough to take unto himself a wife.
Followed by an intransitive particle
away: How are they then deluded away ( from the truth )?
Used with why or when
when: It would mean that I was lying or deluded when I said I was a Christian.
Infinitive complement
- think: Even King Canute was not so deluded as to think he could actually reverse the tide.
- believe: For you have rivals, others who are deluded enough to believe they also have some right to the treasure.
Preposition: with
idea: But we must not be deluded with the idea, that association of agricultural labor could be easily introduced into general practice.
Preposition: by
religion: She was a nice lady, but quite deluded by religion.
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