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From Middle English deluden, borrowed from Latin dēlūdō (“mock, deceive”), from de + lūdō (“to make sport of, to mock”). See ludicrous.

delude (third-person singular simple present deludes, present participle deluding, simple past and past participle deluded)

  1. (transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
    • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1]:
      Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams.
    • 1775, Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America:
      To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.

to deceive

delude

  1. third-person singular present indicative of deludere

dēlūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēlūdō

delude

  1. alternative form of deluden

delude

  1. inflection of deludir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

delude

  1. inflection of deludir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative