MEANING
To lead someone to believe something untrue.
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Words that belong together
- delude oneself
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He deluded himself about the danger.
The imitation voice deluded the listeners.
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Word forms
- Base
- delude
- Past tense
- deluded
- Past participle
- deluded
- Present participle
- deluding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- delude
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deluding
- Present perfect
- have/has deluded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deluding
- Past
- deluded
- Past continuous
- was/were deluding
- Past perfect
- had deluded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deluding
- Future
- will delude
- Future continuous
- will be deluding
- Future perfect
- will have deluded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deluding
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: delude; deludes; deluded; deluded; deluding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: deludes.
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