different between delude vs allude

English

Etymology

From Middle English deluden, from Latin d?l?d? (“mock, deceive”), from de + l?d? ("I make sport of, I mock"). See ludicrous.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??lu?d/, /d??lju?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??lu?d/, /d??lu?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Verb

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.
   • 1775, Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America

     To delude the nation by an airy phantom.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
   • c. 1680, John Dryden, Dido to Aeneas

     It deludes thy search.

Synonyms

• (to deceive): deceive, mislead

Related terms

• delusion
• delusional
• deluded
• allude
• elude
• illude

Translations

Anagrams

• dueled, eluded

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

delude

1. third-person singular present of deludere

Latin

Verb

d?l?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of d?l?d?

Middle English

Verb

delude

1. Alternative form of deluden

Spanish

Verb

delude

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of deludir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of deludir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of deludir.

English

Etymology

From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu?d/

Verb

allude (third-person singular simple present alludes, present participle alluding, simple past and past participle alluded)

1. (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
   • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:

     These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

   • 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474

     It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:allude

Derived terms

• allusive
• allusion

Related terms

• delude
• elude
• illude

Translations

References

• allude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “allude”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

See also

• hark back
• hearken back

Anagrams

• aludel

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al?lu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

allude

1. third-person singular present indicative of alludere

Anagrams

• duella

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al?lu?.de/, [äl??l?u?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al?lu.de/, [?l?lu?d??]

Verb

all?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of all?d?