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Delude vs Hoodwinked - What's the difference?

delude | hoodwinked |

As verbs the difference between delude and hoodwinked

is that delude is to deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe while hoodwinked is past tense of hoodwink.

delude

English

Verb

(delud)
  • To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
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  • * Burke
    • To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
  • (obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
  • * Dryden
    • It deludes thy search.

    Synonyms

    * (to deceive) deceive, mislead

    Anagrams

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    hoodwinked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hoodwink)

    • hoodwink

    English

    (wikipedia hoodwink)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
  • * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.81:
    • Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hangmans hand; as he did, whose friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt , that he might heare it read, was found starke dead upon the scaffold, wounded only by the stroke of imagination.
  • To deceive or trick.
    • I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away.