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DeludeDelude De*lude", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deluded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Deluding.] [L. deludere, delusum; de- + ludere to play,
make sport of, mock. See Ludicrous.]
1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or
judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a
fool of.
To delude the nation by an airy phantom. --Burke.
2. To frustrate or disappoint.
It deludes thy search. --Dryden.
Syn: To mislead; deceive; beguile; cajole; cheat; dupe. See
Deceive. DeludedDelude De*lude", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deluded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Deluding.] [L. deludere, delusum; de- + ludere to play,
make sport of, mock. See Ludicrous.]
1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or
judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a
fool of.
To delude the nation by an airy phantom. --Burke.
2. To frustrate or disappoint.
It deludes thy search. --Dryden.
Syn: To mislead; deceive; beguile; cajole; cheat; dupe. See
Deceive. Deluder
Deluder De*lud"er, n.
One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
Prelude
Prelude Pre*lude", v. t.
1. To introduce with a previous performance; to play or
perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a
lively air.
2. To serve as prelude to; to precede as introductory.
[Music] preluding some great tragedy. --Longfellow
Preluder
Preluder Pre*lud"er, n.
One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude.
--Mason.
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- An
arrest is the act of
apprehending and
taking a
person into
custody (legal
protection or control),
usually because the
person has been
suspected of or...
- A drug-eluting
stent (DES) is a tube made of a mesh-like
material used to
treat narrowed arteries in
medical procedures both
mechanically (by providing...
-
Victoria Cross, a
decoration which King
George VI
remarked "so
strangely eluded him".
Robert Blair "Paddy"
Mayne was born at Newtownards,
County Down, Ireland...
- war
criminal for his
mistreatment and
torture of POWs, but he
managed to
elude arrest and was
never tried in court.
Watanabe served at POW
camps in Omori...
-
sheds or
discards an appendage,
usually as a self-defense
mechanism to
elude a predator's
grasp or to
distract the
predator and
thereby allow escape...
- and
Keith David. It
follows the
adventures of Rid**** as he
attempts to
elude capture and face an
invading empire. The film
received negative reviews...
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naming him the "King of
Weird Fiction". VanderMeer's
fiction is
noted for
eluding genre classifications even as his
works bring in
themes and
elements from...
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motionless and unobserved, this
allows it to
operate as an
ambush predator and
elude animals that
would prey on it. It
resembles another Western Australian species...
- "to skip town",
meaning to
depart (perhaps in a rush or
perhaps hoping to
elude creditors or law enforcement). As such, the skip
tracers need to
track down...
