Reverse Dictionary: DELUDE

ADJECTIVES
► DECEPTIONAL deceptive, deluding, illusory → 1830
► DECEPTIOUS that tends to deceive, cheat, or mislead; deceptive, deluding, illusory → 1606 obs.
► DECEPTITIOUS of a deceptive kind or character; deluding, illusory → 1827
► DECEPTORY apt to deceive, deceptive, deluding, illusory → c1430 obs.
► OFF ONE’S GOURD crazy; deluded → 1945 US sl.
► OFF ONE’S NOODLE crazy; deluded → 1945 US sl.
► OFF ONE’S ROCKER crazy; deluded → 1897 US sl.
► UNBLINDED not deluded or deceived → 1755
► WIGGED ► WIGGED OUT out of touch with reality; deluded → 1950 students’ sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BEGUILER one who beguiles or deludes; a deceiver → a1382
► ILLUSOR a deceiver,  deluder → 1382

PHRASES
► NOT KNOW WHICH SIDE IS UP to be completely ignorant or deluded → 1963 US sl.

VERBS
► BAM to hoax, to practice on the credulity of; to deceive, to delude, to impose upon, to play a joke or trick on a person→ 1738 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BANTER to impose upon a person, orig, in jest; to delude, to cheat, to trick, to bamboozle → a1688 arch.
► BEDIDDER to deceive, to delude → c1000 obs.
► BEGAB to fool with words, to mock, to deceive, to delude; to impose upon → 1297 obs.
► BEGINK ► BEGUNK to delude, to play a deceiving trick on; to take in, to cheat → 1821 Sc.
► BE IN TOW STREET to be deluded or helplessly led by the nose; to be decoyed, to be persuaded → 1841 sl.
► BEMOCK to mock at, to flout; to delude mockingly → 1607
► BLOW UP to mislead, to delude → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► DELIRIATE to act, speak, or reason in a manner considered insane, deluded, or absurd; to be affected by delirium → 1659
► DWELE to wander, to go astray; to err, to be deluded → c900 obs.
► DWELL to lead into error; to mislead, to delude; to stun, to stupefy → c888 obs.
► FOX to delude → a1716
► GAME to befool, to jeer at, to mock, to delude → 1698 UK sl. obs.
► GUM to cheat, to delude, to humbug → 1840 US sl.
► HOLD IN HALS to flatter, to beguile, to delude with false professions → c1560 obs.
► HUMBUG to trick and make a jest of; to impose upon, to hoax, to delude → 1750
► JIG to cheat; to delude; to impose upon → 1876 sl.
► LUDIFY to deceive, to delude → 1447 obs.
► MAKE A MAN’S BEARD to outwit or delude him → 1525 obs.
► MAKE A PERSON’S BEARD to outwit or delude a person → 1410 obs.
► MISFOOL to delude, to deceive → 1953 Amer. dial.
► MISLIPPEN to delude, to deceive → 1807 Sc.
► MISTRY to deceive, to delude → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► OLD-HAND to deceive, to delude → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PRESTIGIATE to deceive by illusion, or as by magic; to delude → 1647 obs.
► RUN A SANDY ON to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude → 1914 Amer. dial.
► RUN A SANDY OVER to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude → 1923 Amer. dial.