"allude" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /əˈluːd/ Audio: En-uk-allude.ogg Forms: alludes [present, singular, third-person], alluding [participle, present], alluded [participle, past], alluded [past]
Rhymes: -uːd Etymology: From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|alluder}} Middle French alluder, {{uder|en|la|alludere||to play with or allude}} Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} allude (third-person singular simple present alludes, present participle alluding, simple past and past participle alluded)
  1. (intransitive) to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion Tags: intransitive Hyponyms: adumbrate, innuendo Derived forms: allusion, allusive, reallude Related terms: collude, delude, elude, illude, hark back, hearken back, inkling Translations (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion): намякаць (namjakacʹ) [imperfective] (Belarusian), намякну́ць (namjaknúcʹ) [perfective] (Belarusian), споменавам (spomenavam) (Bulgarian), загатвам (zagatvam) (Bulgarian), al·ludir (Catalan), dělat narážky (Czech), narážet (Czech), toespelen (Dutch), zinspelen (Dutch), alluderen (Dutch), aludi (Esperanto), viitata (Finnish), vihjata (Finnish), alluder (French), faire allusion (French), suggérer (French), andeuten (German), erwähnen (German), anspielen (German), υπαινίσσομαι (ypainíssomai) (Greek), υπονοώ (yponoó) (Greek), συστήνω (systíno) (Greek), συνιστώ (synistó) (Greek), tagair do (Irish), ailléidigh [literary] (Irish), alludere (Italian), 遠回しに触れる (tōmawashi ni fureru) (Japanese), 当て擦る (atekosuru) (english: maliciously) (Japanese), 当て付ける (atetsukeru) (english: maliciously) (Japanese), 嫌味を言う (iyami o iu) (english: maliciously) (Japanese), alludir (Occitan), اشاره کردن (ešâre kardan) (Persian), pić (maliciously) (alt: + do kogo) (Polish), aludir (Portuguese), face aluzie (Romanian), referi (Romanian), намека́ть (namekátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), намекну́ть (nameknútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), упомина́ть (upominátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), упомяну́ть (upomjanútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), подразумевать (podrazumevatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), luaidh (Scottish Gaelic), aludirati (Serbo-Croatian), aludir (Spanish), referirse (Spanish), anspela (Swedish), alludera (Swedish), натякати (natjakaty) (Ukrainian), посилатися (posylatysja) (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523",
          "text": "These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use."
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          "ref": "1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474:",
          "text": "It was aptly said by Newton that \"whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis,\" but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.",
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          "ref": "2012 January 20, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23:",
          "text": "We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.",
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        "(intransitive) to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion"
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          "word": "advert"
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          "word": "allude"
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          "word": "intimate"
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          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "namjakacʹ",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
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        },
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          "code": "be",
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          "roman": "namjaknúcʹ",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
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        },
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "spomenavam",
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          "roman": "zagatvam",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
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          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "al·ludir"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
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          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
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          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
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          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "aludi"
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          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "viitata"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "vihjata"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "alluder"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "faire allusion"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "suggérer"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "andeuten"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "erwähnen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "anspielen"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ypainíssomai",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "υπαινίσσομαι"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "yponoó",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "υπονοώ"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "systíno",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "συστήνω"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "synistó",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "συνιστώ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "tagair do"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
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          "word": "ailléidigh"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "alludere"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "tōmawashi ni fureru",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "遠回しに触れる"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "maliciously",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "atekosuru",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "当て擦る"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "maliciously",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "atetsukeru",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "当て付ける"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "maliciously",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "iyami o iu",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "嫌味を言う"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "alludir"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "ešâre kardan",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "اشاره کردن"
        },
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          "alt": "+ do kogo",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "roman": "maliciously",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "pić"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "note": "przymawiać (+ dative, maliciously)",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "aludir"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "face aluzie"
        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "referi"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "namekátʹ",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "намека́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nameknútʹ",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "намекну́ть"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "upominátʹ",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "упомина́ть"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "upomjanútʹ",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
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          "word": "упомяну́ть"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podrazumevatʹ",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "подразумевать"
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "luaidh"
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          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "aludir"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "referirse"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "anspela"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "alludera"
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          "roman": "natjakaty",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "натякати"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "posylatysja",
          "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
          "word": "посилатися"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "collude"
    },
    {
      "word": "delude"
    },
    {
      "word": "elude"
    },
    {
      "word": "illude"
    },
    {
      "word": "hark back"
    },
    {
      "word": "hearken back"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "inkling"
    }
  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Middle French",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/uːd",
        "Rhymes:English/uːd/2 syllables",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Occitan translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523",
          "text": "These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474:",
          "text": "It was aptly said by Newton that \"whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis,\" but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 20, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23:",
          "text": "We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "indirect",
          "indirect"
        ],
        [
          "suggestion",
          "suggestion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈluːd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-uk-allude.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/En-uk-allude.ogg/En-uk-allude.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/En-uk-allude.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːd"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "elude"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "illude (weak vowel merger)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "advert"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "allude"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "hint"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "imply"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "indicate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "inkle"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "insinuate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "intimate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "refer"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "signify"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:allude",
      "word": "suggest"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "namjakacʹ",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "намякаць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "namjaknúcʹ",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "намякну́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "spomenavam",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "споменавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zagatvam",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "загатвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "al·ludir"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "dělat narážky"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "narážet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "toespelen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "zinspelen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "alluderen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "aludi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "viitata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "vihjata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "alluder"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "faire allusion"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "suggérer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "andeuten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "erwähnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "anspielen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ypainíssomai",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "υπαινίσσομαι"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "yponoó",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "υπονοώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "systíno",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "συστήνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "synistó",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "συνιστώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "tagair do"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "ailléidigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "alludere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tōmawashi ni fureru",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "遠回しに触れる"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "maliciously",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "atekosuru",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "当て擦る"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "maliciously",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "atetsukeru",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "当て付ける"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "maliciously",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "iyami o iu",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "嫌味を言う"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "alludir"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ešâre kardan",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "اشاره کردن"
    },
    {
      "alt": "+ do kogo",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "roman": "maliciously",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "pić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "note": "przymawiać (+ dative, maliciously)",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "aludir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "face aluzie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "referi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "namekátʹ",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "намека́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nameknútʹ",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "намекну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "upominátʹ",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "упомина́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "upomjanútʹ",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "упомяну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podrazumevatʹ",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "подразумевать"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "luaidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "aludirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "aludir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "referirse"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "anspela"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "alludera"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "natjakaty",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "натякати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "posylatysja",
      "sense": "refer to something indirectly or by suggestion",
      "word": "посилатися"
    }
  ],
  "word": "allude"
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": neutrally vs. tōmawashi ni fureru",
  "path": [
    "allude"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "allude",
  "trace": ""
}

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