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
For he dare not so illude anie that knoweth that, neither can the spirite of the defunct returne to his friend, or yet an Angell vse such formes.
From Daemonologie. by James I, King of England
Which experience lessoneth them to illude this later, by appoynting certaine cotagers houses in euery parish to serue, nomine tenus, for that purpose.
From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard
That it could do none of these things would rob it of all power to illude you.
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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