/COLLUDE-meaning

// Verb.

// Pronunciation and accent: kəl(j)uːd.

// Third-person singular simple present: she/he colludes.

// Preterite tense, preterite participle: colluded.

// Present participle: colluding.

// It is dated from 1500.

// Etymology: from Latin colludere “to play with someone else, act collusively”, from col- + ludere “to play”. It is identical with Italian colludere and Spanish coludir.

// Intransitive: 1. To act in conspiracy; to act in secret concert with someone; to enter into a collusion; to associate secretly, as if it were a mere play.

// Synonyms for “collude”: conspire, plot, connive.

// Translation: comploter, in French.

Had Max's mind not been wholly preoccupied by one subject, his suspicions must now have been fully aroused, that the occupants of the mansion were quietly colluding in the escape of the prisoner.

Ch… Hoffman… Greyslaer… 1840

// With the preposition “with”:

The Virginians, a hundred years afterwards, suspected Governor Dunmore of colluding with Indians.

Charles Campbell… History… 1860

He not only looted the bank, but falsified its books. He did not commit the crime upon impulse or sudden temptation. He did it deliberately, systematically, colluding with his cashier to plunder the fools who had trusted him.

Watson's Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 1, March, 1906

// Transitive: to do (something) by collusion. Obsolete acceptation.

// English words derived from 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, prolusory.