illude
Americanverb (used with object)
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to deceive or trick.
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Obsolete.
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to mock or ridicule.
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to evade.
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verb
Etymology
Origin of illude
1445–50; me < illūdere to mock, ridicule; illusion
Example Sentences
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Those are questions that illude Armstrong & Co. and that’s unfortunate.
From Time • Nov. 13, 2012
That it could do none of these things would rob it of all power to illude you.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
Little by little, as I came nearer, she ceased to illude me, and I began to think of her as 'it.'
From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
The longer we gaze, the more surely does the picture illude us and enthral us, steeping us in that tragedy of 'the fruitless crown and barren sceptre.'
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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