delude
pronunciation
How to pronounce delude in British English:
UK [dɪˈluːd]
How to pronounce delude in American English:
US [dɪˈluːd]
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- Verb:
- be false to; be dishonest with
Word Origin
- delude (v.)
- c. 1400, from Latin deludere "to play false; to mock, deceive," from de- "down, to one's detriment" (see de-) + ludere "to play" (see ludicrous). Related: Deluded; deluding.
Example
- 1. Yet when assets were booked at their original price , rather than the market one , banks could delude themselves-and investors-that dross was gold .
- 2. " We should not delude ourselves that this increase is all at the lower value-added part of the chain ; china is rapidly moving up the ' value curve ' in its exports , " he said .
- 3. Yet my sense from many conversations with dispassionate european officials and politicians is that greece would delude itself were to it imagine that the new rhetoric of growth will allow it to put aside its commitments to fiscal rectitude and structural reform .
- 4. Neither side should delude itself that it can avoid the harm caused by an increased mutual antagonism ; both should understand that a crisis in one country can hurt the other .