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Allude

//əˈljuːd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention. intransitive

    "These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use."

  2. 2
    make a more or less disguised reference to wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”).

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