Collude
verb
Pronunciation and accent: k?l(j)u;d
Third-person singular simple present: she/he colludes
Indicative past, past participle: colluded
Present participle: colluding
Etymology: it is an adaptation from Latin colludere (= to play with someone else, act collusively), from col- + ludere (= to play). It is etymologically and semantically identical with Italian colludere and Spanish coludir.
Intransitively
1. To act in secret conspiracy, connivence or concert with someone; this is, to contract a collusion; to associate in order either to do or forbear something that is to be secret, as if it was about a mere play.
Synonyms: to conspire, plot, connive
It may be approximately translated by comploter, in French.
***With the preposition with (the other colluder):
Studies report that mothers collude with carers in the matter of accepting inferior standards of care for their children.
Floyd M. Martinson (The Care of Infants and Young Children)
So this friend of Caroline’s… this pompous little weasel… had colluded with her father to make her have the abortion?
Maggie Cox (The Pregnancy Secret)
Bill colluded with me that I would call my nightly drinks (and soon Jane’s nightly drinks, too) 'pints of Slimmers'.
Fred Sedgwick (How to teach with a hangover)
I believe my mother colluded with me from now on.
Arthur Hamilton Crisp (Anorexia nervosa)
[…] the witness who comes thus prima facie contaminated, may be so confirmed by the consistency and clearness of his own narration, and still more by its conformity to and coincidence with the substance of the testimony delivered by others, not likely to have conspired with him in the crime itself, or to have had the means of concerting and colluding with him as to the matter of his testimony.
Annual Register
“Colluding with a possible suspect?” Linzey had her tape recorder clutched in her hand. “And who is the possible suspect?”
Mark Terry (The Serpent’s Kiss)
Transitively
Definition: to do (something) by collusion.
Postdefinition: obsolete acceptation
Other English vocables derived from, or compounded with one of the radicals of Latin ludere: deludable, delude, deluded, deludedly, deluder, deluding, deludingly, delusion, delusional, delusionist, delusive, delusively, delusiveness, delusory, undeludable, undelude, undeluded, undelusive, allude, alluded, alluding, allusion, allusive, allusively, allusiveness, colluding, colluder, collusion, collusive, collusively, elude, eluded, eluding, eluder, eludible, elusion, elusive, elusively, elusiveness, elusory, ineludible, ineludibly, illude, illuded, illuding, illuder, illusible, illusion, illusionless, illusionable, illusional, illusionary, illusioned, illusionism, illusionist, illusionistic, illusive, illusively, illusiveness, illusor, illusory, illusorily, illusoriness, disillusion (noun, verb), disillusioned, disillusioning, disillusioner, disillusionist, disillusionary, disillusionize, disillusionizing, disillusionizer, disillusionment, disillusive, ludibrious, ludic, ludicrosity, ludicrous, ludicrously, ludicrousness, ludification, lusory, prelude (noun, verb), preluding, preluder, preludingly, preludial, prelusion, prelusive, prelusively, prelusory, prelusorily, prolusion, prolusionize, prolusory
