delude
verb /dɪˈluːd/
/dɪˈluːd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they delude | /dɪˈluːd/ /dɪˈluːd/ |
| he / she / it deludes | /dɪˈluːdz/ /dɪˈluːdz/ |
| past simple deluded | /dɪˈluːdɪd/ /dɪˈluːdɪd/ |
| past participle deluded | /dɪˈluːdɪd/ /dɪˈluːdɪd/ |
| -ing form deluding | /dɪˈluːdɪŋ/ /dɪˈluːdɪŋ/ |
- to make somebody believe something that is not true synonym deceive
- delude somebody You poor deluded creature.
- delude yourself He's deluding himself if he thinks it's going to be easy.
- delude somebody/yourself into doing something Don't be deluded into thinking that we are out of danger yet.
- delude yourself that… She had been deluding herself that he loved her.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin deludere ‘to mock’, from de- (with pejorative force) + ludere ‘to play’.