Synonyms for delude
dɪˈlud

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. deceive, lead on, delude, cozen(verb)

   be false to; be dishonest with

   Synonyms:
   betray, lead astray, cozen, lead on, deceive

Wiktionary(2.00 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. delude(verb)

   To deceive someone into believing something which is false.

   Synonyms:
   deceive, mislead

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. delude(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   deceive, beguile, mislead, cheat, cozen, chouse, diddle, gull, dupe, circumvent, overreach, trick, impose upon, lead astray, lead into error

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1. List of paraphrases for "delude":

   deceive, mislead, fool, cheat, disappoint, defraud

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How to use delude in a sentence?

1. Hedrick Smith:

   Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

2. Henry C. Blinn:

   Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

3. Mahabharata:

   In youth a man is deluded by other ideas than those which delude him in middle life, and again in his decay he embraces other ideas.

4. Silvio Brusaferro:

   We must not delude ourselves that a slowdown of the spread may lead us to slow down the measures of social distancing that we have adopted.

5. Luis Rodolfo Machado:

   I hope we have a second chance, but in the meantime we cannot delude ourselves and we have to play with what we have.

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