allude
/əˈlud/ verb C2- To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention. · First, she alluded to her husband as "the man at home looking after the children". Then she referred to him as "my George".
He/she/it alludes · Past alluded · Past participle alluded · -ing form alluding
Verb forms
- Base form
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- He/she/it
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- Past
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- Past participle
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- -ing form
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“You allude, perhaps, to the entail of this estate.”
As for Jane, _her_ anxiety under this suspense was, of course, more painful than Elizabeth’s: but whatever she felt she was desirous of concealing; and between herself and Elizabeth, therefore, the subject was never alluded to.
You alluded to something else.
The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly for denial; and the circumstances to which he particularly alluded, as having passed at the Netherfield ball, and as confirming all his first disapprobation, could not have made a stronger impression on his mind than on hers.
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