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delude
[dih-lood]
verb (used with object)
to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive.
His conceit deluded him into believing he was important.
Synonyms: , , , , ,Obsolete.to mock or frustrate the hopes or aims of.
Obsolete.to elude; evade.
delude
/ ɪˈː /
verb
to deceive the mind or judgment of; mislead; beguile
rareto frustrate (hopes, expectations, etc)
Other 51Թ Forms
- deluder noun
- deludingly adverb
- nondeluding adjective
- undeluding adjective
- ˈܻ徱Բ adverb
- ˈܻ noun
- ˈܻ岹 adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of delude1
Example Sentences
There could be “huge social ruptures where one side sees the other as very cruelly exploiting AI while the other side sees the first as deluding itself into thinking there’s sentience there,” he said.
If what his Cabinet members are telling the press is an accurate reflection of his views, it's pretty clear that he's deeply deluded.
He’s so deluded about what sounds cool that he’s nicknamed himself “The Garbage Man.”
“It was the example of men like Darrow that caused the poor deluded wretch, J.B. McNamara, to believe that he could commit the crimes he did with safety to himself,” Ford said.
To make matters very slightly worse, some of the more deluded or imaginative of those left-wing thinkers have occasionally pretzeled themselves into optimism about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, basically on the stopped-clock theory.
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