allude

[Al*ludeĀ·]

When you allude to something, you don't identify it or mention it specifically. If you allude to the fact that a cop is sitting right behind you, your friends might stop talking about their plans to rob a bank.

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To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.

Verb
make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"


v. i.
To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.

v. t.
To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.


Allude

Al*lude" , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Alluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Alluding.] [L. alludere to play with, to allude; ad + ludere to play.] To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.
These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
Syn. -- To refer; point; indicate; hint; suggest; intimate; signify; insinuate; advert. See Refer.

Allude

Al*lude", v. t. To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable. [Obs.] Wither.

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.

To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.

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