different between delude vs deluder

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

delude +? -er

Noun

deluder (plural deluders)

1. Someone who deludes

Anagrams

• dreuled