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delude

verb
/dɪˈluːd/UK/dɪˈluːd/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from dēlūdō
  2. inherited from deluden

Definitions

  1. To deceive into believing something which is false

    To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.

    • To delude the nation by an airy phantom.

  2. To frustrate or disappoint.

    • It deludes thy search.

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Derived

deludable, deludee, deluder, deludingly, delusive, undelude

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at delude. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at delude. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at delude

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA