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Definition

to make an indirect reference

He alluded to Susan without mentioning her name.

alluded = indirectly referenced

She didn't mention any names, but everyone knew she was alluding to the President.

alluding = indirectly referring

Where she cannot make a point with logic, she uses allusion.

allusion = indirect reference

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

a masterpiece of alliteration and allusion

Her allusions to her son were few and...
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

allusions = indirect references

(editor's note: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.)

"...what shall I call them?—the Three Graces of the Dublin musical world."
The table burst into applause and laughter at this allusion.
James Joyce -- Dubliners

allusion = an indirect reference

...there flashed upon my mind what I cannot better describe than as the unformed half of that idea of deliverance to which I have previously alluded,
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

alluded = indirectly referenced

no songs had alluded to him even in the obscurest way
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

alluded = indirectly referred

Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement?
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest

allude = to make an indirect reference

What we afterwards alluded to as an attack was really an attempt at repulse.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

alluded = indirectly referenced

NEVER, by a slip of the tongue, have they so much as alluded to either of their old friends,
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw

alluded = indirectly referenced

The boy to whom I allude won all the marbles of the school.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter

allude = indirectly reference

everybody was permitted to lend him books, if they were not published in America and made no allusion to it.
Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country

allusion = reference

He has only once—quite vaguely—alluded to it.
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler

alluded = indirectly referenced

He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some allusion to a rat.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

allusion = indirect reference

Are you alluding to anything in particular?
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot

alluding = making an indirect reference

An evening at home rarely passed without some allusion to this image, this specter, this hope.
Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie

allusion = indirect reference

The affair to which you allude was no more than a speculation.
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband

allude = to make an indirect reference

by which he meant snail, and this was in allusion to his being slow to go,
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

allusion = an indirect reference

it was against all the rules of their code that the mother and son should ever allude to what was uppermost in their thoughts
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence

allude = refer (even indirectly)

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