单词 | delude |
释义 | delude (once / 407 pages) v To delude is to trick or fool, often in relation to yourself. If you delude yourself into thinking your mom's chocolate cake is low in fat, you'll be disappointed to find out it's made with two sticks of butter! If you delude someone into thinking something, you are making a fool of them, or making them foolish. The word shares a root with ludicrous which means completely ridiculous. The thing that you foolishly believe is a delusion. Someone with delusions of grandeur has deluded themselves into thinking they are very, very special. WORD FAMILYdelude: deluded, deludes, deluding, delusion, delusive, delusory+/delusion: delusional, delusions/delusional: delusionally/delusive: delusively USAGE EXAMPLESThey are seen by some as deluded excuses rather than helpful explanations. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) “We are waiting for confirmation, but I am not deluding myself.” New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) The children remain little beasts; his father remains a baron of bluster and a deluded idealist, still smitten with the promise of pan-Arabism. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) v be false to; be dishonest with Syn|Hypo|Hyper cozen, deceive, lead on betray, sell deliver to an enemy by treachery cheat, chiselengage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud shillact as a shill flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trickdeceive somebody befool, fool, gullmake a fool or dupe of betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wanderbe sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage hoax, play a joke on, pull someone's legsubject to a playful hoax or joke ensnare, entrap, frame, set uptake or catch as if in a snare or trap humbugtrick or deceive double crossbetray by double-dealing jobprofit privately from public office and official business sharkplay the shark; act with trickery rig, set uparrange the outcome of by means of deceit cozenact with artful deceit cribuse a crib, as in an exam two-timecarry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangletamper, with the purpose of deception snookerfool or dupe fool around, play aroundcommit adultery victimise, victimize make a victim of |
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