transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪlu:d ]
( deludes, deluding, deluded)
1.
If you delude yourself , you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
The President was deluding himself if he thought he was safe from such action...
We delude ourselves that we are in control...
I had deluded myself into believing that it would all come right in the end.
VERB : V pron-refl , V pron-refl that , V pron-refl into -ing
2.
To delude someone into thinking something means to make them believe what is not true.
Television deludes you into thinking you have experienced reality, when you haven’t...
He had been unwittingly deluded by their mystical nonsense.
= deceive
VERB : V n into -ing , be V-ed