verb
definition
To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
definition
To frustrate or disappoint.
Examples of delude in a Sentence
These foreigners introduced new life into politics and the press, and made it fashionable for educated Maltese to delude themselves with the idea that the Maltese were Italians, because a few of them could speak the language of the peninsula.
They delude themselves that they are going to influence and/or modify the priorities of the company.
Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.
But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
His paper presents evidence to show that there are ways in which learners delude themselves and can be misled by feedback.
We should delude ourselves by entertaining the hope that matters would mend by-and-by..
That said, don't delude yourself into thinking that you can get away with wearing a one piece shaper all the time.