allude
Meaning of allude
verb
- suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at.
she had a way of alluding to Jean but never saying her name
late 15th century (in the sense ‘hint at, suggest’): from Latin allus-, alludere, from ad- ‘towards’ + ludere ‘to play’.
Information about allude
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of allude is: alludes.
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Hyphenation of allude
al-lude
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- allude is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
allude synonyms
Meaning touch:
Meaning put forward for consideration:
Meaning indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference:
Meaning refer to (something) briefly and without going into detail:
Meaning refer to (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work:
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Words that rhyme with allude
lude, Quaalude, palude, quaalude, ablude, blude, Baraclude, aquiclude, circumclude, coinclude, conclude, disocclude, exclude, foreconclude, include, interclude, obclude, occlude, preclude, preconclude, preexclude, preinclude, pseudoconclude, reclude, reconclude, reinclude, seclude, antelude, delude, elude, predelude, prelude, undelude, hastilude, collude, disillude, illude, preallude, precollude, reallude, interlude, postlude
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