Delude vs Lure - What's the difference?
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To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
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* Burke
(obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
* Dryden
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
(fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
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A velvet smoothing brush.
To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
To recall a hawk with a lure.
deceive, trick
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Delude is a related term of lure.
As verbs the difference between delude and lure
is that delude is to deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe while lure is to attract by temptation etc; to entice.As a noun lure is
something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.delude
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Verb
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- To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
- It deludes thy search.
Synonyms
* (to deceive) deceive, misleadAnagrams
* * ----lure
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Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
- My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, / And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure .
- (Knight)
