intransitive verb
-·lud′ed, -·lud′ing to refer in a casual or indirect way (to)
Origin of allude
Classical Latin alludere, to joke, jest from ad-, to + ludere, to play: see ludicrous
verb
The definition of allude is to drop a hint about something, but not go into details or specifics.
An example of allude is when a person mentions he needs to make a doctor appointment, but don’t say why he needs to.
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intransitive verb
al·lud·ed, al·lud·ing, al·ludesTo make an indirect reference: The candidate alluded to the recent war by saying, “We've all made sacrifices.”
Origin of allude
Latin allūdere to play with ad- ad- lūdere to play ( from lūdus game ; see leid- in Indo-European roots.)Usage Note: Unlike semantically similar verbs that take a clause as a complement (such as suggest and hint ), allude usually requires a prepositional phrase starting with to. Occasionally one sees allude with a clause, as in The ambassador alluded that sanctions might soon be lifted. Such constructions have a long history, occurring in written sources as far back as the late 1500s, but they are not established as standard usage. In our 2015 survey, 86 percent of the Usage Panel considered the example above unacceptable, with 65 percent judging it completely unacceptable.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present alludes, present participle alluding, simple past and past participle alluded)
- (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
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Sentence Examples
- We can only allude to some of these points.
- Between a king who is a boy and one who is of noble birth may allude to historical persons.
- Newton's desire to have no hand in writing the preface seems. to have proceeded from a knowledge that Cotes was proposing to allude to the dispute about the invention of fluxions.
- It remains only to allude to the European school, if school it can be called, founded by Kokan and Denkichi, two contemporaries of OkyO.
- We can only allude to a few of the measures which received his efficient support, e.g.
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