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Deluded vs Delude - What's the difference?

deluded | delude |

As verbs the difference between deluded and delude

is that deluded is (delude) while delude is to deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.

As an adjective deluded

is being affected by delusions.

deluded

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being affected by delusions.
    • He was deluded to think that she cared in the slightest.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (delude)

    • delude

    English

    Verb

    (delud)
  • To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. }}
  • * Burke
    • To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
  • (obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
  • * Dryden
    • It deludes thy search.

    Synonyms

    * (to deceive) deceive, mislead

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