delude

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We knew that our enemies were harder to delude, and our next step was to make her as unlike the Wasp or the Queen of Sheba as possible.

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  1. transitive verb To deceive the mind or judgment of: fraudulent ads that delude consumers into sending in money. See Synonyms at deceive.
  2. transitive verb Obsolete To elude or evade.
  3. transitive verb Obsolete To frustrate the hopes or plans of.

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  • Please be quiet. jed: steal, don't delude yourself. if you've got something to say spit it out Larry Horse: No sentencing til October, will Neesa make it? —  LUKE IS BACK
  • Our public statements should not delude us over the fact that the insurrection, while incapable of winning a military victory, nevertheless has the capacity to make life increasingly difficult, including in the capital. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
  • You don't put up information about the candidate, what you do is create delusional images that delude and deceive. —  One Woman. One Blog.
  • You fire ridiculously inept Kassam rockets that cause little destruction and delude yourselves into thinking this is a war of liberation. —  Red Liberal
  • That way we can still delude ourselves with hope from the rumor half of this post. —  PlayStation 3
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English deluden, from Latin dēlūdere : dē-, de- + lūdere, to play; see leid- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English deluden, from Old French deluder, also deluer, from Latin deludere, past participle delusus, mock, make sport of, deceive, from de + ludere, play, jest. Cf. allude, collude, illude.
 

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