(v. t.) To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
(v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint.
Example Sentences:
(1) England will not delude themselves that this match, and with it the series, was lost because of a single piece of sharp practice by Sachithra Senanayake – or even, if they take a more self-critical approach, one moment of doziness from Jos Buttler and a separate breakdown in communication between the wicketkeeper and Chris Jordan.
(2) Self-analysing but also self-deluding, strongly driven but curiously aimless, Sanders is an early version of a character-type that recurs throughout Ballard's fiction.
(3) Edwards, an economist at investment bank Société Générale, warned investors that they were deluded if they thought that the west could avoid being affected by problems in emerging markets, or that central bankers could successfully come to the rescue by cutting the cost of credit to boost consumer and business borrowing.
(4) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
(5) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.
(6) This looks like a deluded bolt-on to the “35% strategy” whereby Miliband will supposedly sweep into Downing Street thanks to Labour’s core vote and disaffected former Lib Dem supporters; it only compounds the sense that people at the top of the Labour party are lost in the psephological woods.
(7) The British Medical Journal said that "to pull off either of these challenges would therefore be breathtaking; to believe that you could manage both of them at once is deluded".
(8) In 1893 shortly after the tragic death of his young son and of his mentor Charcot, Gilles de la Tourette was shot by a deluded woman who had been a patient at the Salpêtrière.
(9) "Keeping the military candidate [in the race] and overturning the elected parliament after granting the military police the right to arrest is a complete coup and whoever thinks that millions of youth will let it pass is deluding themselves," he said in a statement on his Facebook page.
(10) His message to the Israeli left – and perhaps to John Kerry, now on yet another peacemaking trip to Jerusalem – is that it can delude itself no more that dealing with the relatively easy matter of the post-1967 occupation will be enough to bring peace.
(11) Anyone who thinks everything can be reduced to data is probably deluding themselves.” A picture caption in this article was edited on 4 August 2015.
(12) If someone is going to put you in touch with your dead child you'd want to know if they were real, deluded or a scam artist."
(13) Alex Kozinski, a federal appeals judge on the court that initially ruled in favour of the stay, said before Wood’s death that lethal injections should be replaced by firing squads and that the public should stop trying to delude itself that lethal injection was a serene method, realise the inherent brutality of executions and accept a more efficient process.
(14) I felt I'd been deluding myself about the power of narrative, a belief that I had maintained throughout my career.
(15) Feminism , according to Moran, is "simply the belief that women should be as free as men – however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be.
(16) The overall incidence of 1.4% is low but being a hospital incidence, the authors feel that it should not be deluding.
(17) We may be deluding ourselves in considering the condition as "new."
(18) But, Ouseley says, those people who suggest that the work of Kick It Out is complete, and that it's now time to focus primarily on homophobia and sexism, are seriously deluded.
(19) Kwarteng said of the idea of a rerun: “People are completely deluded about this.
(20) It was found that 72.9% of the patients were deluded, the most common delusions being of persecution, grandeur and guilt; in 34.9% of the deluded patients, the delusion had a religious content.
Denude
Definition:
(v. t.) To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modified liposomes and erythrocytes were perfused in situ through segments of bovine, rabbit, or human arteries partially denuded with a balloon catheter prior to perfusion.
(2) The abdominal aorta of rabbits was denuded of endothelium and immediately, 24 h, or 5 weeks later, exposed to autologous radiolabelled PMNs for 1 h. The presence of PMNs at sites of denudation was demonstrated by detection of the radioactive label and was confirmed by light and electron microscopy after 24 h, but not at 5 weeks.
(3) Scanning electron microscopy showed denudation of the endothelial cells, exposure of the subintimal layer, and adhesion of the platelets.
(4) In endothelium-denuded segments, vasoconstrictor responses to nerve stimulation (0.5 Hz, 10 s) or norepinephrine (10 ng) remained constant.
(5) Moreover, the mechanical denudation technique did not deleteriously affect smooth muscle because vasoconstrictor and vasodilator responses to nonendothelial-dependent drugs were the same before and after denudation.
(6) In the transmission electron microscopic studies, magainin-treated sperm cells incubated with either peptide consistently demonstrated denudation of the outer plasma membrane and partial disappearance of the acrosome, while sperm incubated in saline remained unaltered.
(7) KCl-induced contraction in the endothelium-reseeded artery did not differ from that in the denuded artery.
(8) High concentrations of CGRP hyperpolarized the smooth muscle membrane both in intact and endothelium-denuded arteries.
(9) Histamine-induced contractions in intact and denuded preparations were not affected by an H2-antagonist, cimetidine, but were inhibited by an H1-antagonist, diphenhydramine in non-competitive manner in the rings with endothelium and in competitive manner in denuded rings.
(10) In the presence of 0.02 mM verapamil, the maturation of cumulus-enclosed oocytes was not affected, whereas at the same dose of verapamil the maturation of denuded oocytes was inhibited.
(11) In two other patients with active disease whose CEA titers fell prior to colectomy, marked denudation of colonic mucosa was noted.
(12) Moreover, histamine content in pleural surface was significantly (P < 0.05) higher than in denuded parenchyma.
(13) The patterns of in vivo release of histamine and tryptase were determined during prolonged Ag incubation in atopic individuals, using skin chambers placed over denuded skin blister sites.
(14) Messenger RNA levels for v-sis were induced by tension in intact but not denuded vessels.
(15) An angiographic study was performed before and 4 weeks after endothelial denudation; in the latter condition the presence of a full endothelial lining was confirmed histologically.
(16) Immediately before in vitro insemination, the oocytes were divided into three types with different follicle cells: denuded and corona- and cumulus-enclosed oocytes.
(17) The left uterine horn was subjected to a standardized lesion by serosal denudation and devascularization.
(18) It occurred when granular pneumocytes re-epithelialized along the luminal surface of intra-alveolar debris overlying denuded alveolar epithelial basal laminae.
(19) Haemolysate 1 microliter ml-1 had no effect on the denuded artery rings under hypoxic conditions.
(20) In our series of 31 patients, it was found that severe conductive hearing loss, abundant pale granulations, and denuded malleus handle are constant findings and, in our opinion, are significant clinical features of the pathology.