OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 11841

delude

/dɪˈluːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
deludir • engañar
To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
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 thinki…
To delude the nation by an airy phantom.