to delude
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6.3
- verb
- /dɪˈluːd/
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- The con artist managed to delude his victims into believing they won a lottery.
- delude someone into thinking
- delude someone into believing
- delude oneself
Maybe I'm just deluding myself, but I think that.
- Maybe I'm just deluding myself, but I think that.
- Do you think there is value to deluding yourself?
- That would have been great because I wouldn't have deluded myself that whole time.
- They may be easily deluded into thinking that it's their own thoughts.
- And the the really monstrous thing about this is we're so deluded into thinking that fruit juice is healthy.
- I think most of most of us are really, I think unfortunately miseducated and we're taught to delude ourselves.
- So it's, it's, it's another one of those things that it's we can easily trick ourselves and delude ourselves.
- And we we craft these narratives around identity that we delude ourselves are real.
Examples
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How do you know you're not deluding yourself?
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It's no use deluding oneself with false hopes.
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But it feels like the the administration helps you delude yourself longer.
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That people that delude themselves that their job is so important, right.
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How can you delude yourself?
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I could no longer delude myself into thinking it was simply going to go away.
Fiction book (1995) -
We should not delude ourselves into thinking we all use it the same way.
Academic text (2001) -
Do you think there is value to deluding yourself?
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But if I have no real gift, if I am only deluding myself, then I am wasting everything.
Fiction book (1999) -
If you believe you can enrich yourself by deluding others, you can only end by deluding yourself.
Synonyms
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1.3
To say something that is not true to trick someone
704
2.1
To trick someone into believing something that is not true
326
3.5
To make someone believe something false so you can get what you want
270
3.9
To make someone believe something that is not true to get an advantage
87
3.9
Make someone believe something that is not true
58
6.4
To trick someone into believing something false
24
6.0
To make someone think you want a relationship or a future with them when you do not
23
4.3
Make someone believe something that is not true
11
8.3
To trick someone by pretending you want to help them
11
9.0
Say things that are not true to make people believe you
7
7.4
Treat someone as stupid to trick or cheat them
4
3.9
To make all the people believe something that is not true
4
7.9
To trick someone into believing something false
4
7.8
To make someone believe something that is not true
3
6.0
Pretend to be a person or website online to trick people
2
4.5
To trick people into believing something false
1
9.9
To trick someone to get their money or things
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8.1
To trick someone who trusts you by hiding your real plans to get something for yourself
To trick someone to get their money
To trick someone into believing something false
Make someone believe something false to trick them
To trick or cheat someone by lying
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
delude = de + lud
Although the prefix 'de-' is recognizable, the root 'lud' is not a standalone English word and the modern meaning 'to deceive' is not transparently derived for average learners.
Etymology
Delude comes from the Latin parts de- ('away') and ludere ('to play'), and it shares the same root as illusion. So to delude someone is to 'play them away' from the truth — to trick them into believing something that is not true.