collude

English

Etymology

• From Latin colludere, from con- and ludere (“to play”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈluːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

Verb

collude (third-person singular simple present colludes, present participle colluding, simple past and past participle colluded)

1. (intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire
   • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎^[1]:

     William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them.

     adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

Synonyms

• to be in cahoots
• conspire
• plot
• scheme

Related terms

• collusion

Translations

to conspire

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: conspirar (ca)
• Dutch: colluderen, samenzweren (nl), samenspannen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: juonitella (fi), toimia salaliitossa
• French: faire collusion, comploter (fr), colluder (fr) (law, dated)
• German: zusammenspielen (de), kolludieren
• Greek: συνωμοτώ (el) (synomotó)
• Hungarian: összejátszik (hu)
• Ido: koluzionar (io)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: сгова́риваться (ru) impf (sgovárivatʹsja), сговори́ться (ru) pf (sgovorítʹsja)
• Spanish: coludir (es), conspirar (es)
• Swedish: konspirera (sv), stå i maskopi, spela under täcket
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: змовля́тися impf (zmovljátysja), змо́витися pf (zmóvytysja)

Anagrams

• loculed

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolˈlu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: col‧lù‧de

Verb

collude

1. (transitive) third-person singular present indicative of colludere

Latin

Verb

collūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of collūdō