collude
/kəˈluːd/
collude verb: to act in concert with; to conspire.
Verb
collude (third-person singular simple present colludes, present participle colluding, simple past and past participle colluded)
- to act in concert with; to conspire.
- 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.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair
collude meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
collude in Urdu
- مل جانا, ساز باز ہونا, سازش کرنا
collude in Bengali
- গোপন ষড়যন্ত্র করা
collude in Malayalam
- conspire, connive, collaborate
- ഗൂഢാലോചന നടത്തുക, ഉപജാപം നടത്തുക, രഹസ്യധാരണ ഉണ്ടാക്കുക, രഹസ്യധാരണയിലൂടെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, പരവഞ്ചനയ്ക്കു ഗൂഢാലോചന നടത്തുക, കൂട്ടം കൂടുക
Synonyms of collude
Forms of collude
| third-person singular present | colludes |
|---|---|
| present participle | colluding |
| past participle | colluded |
| past | colluded |
Origin of collude
* From Latin collūdere, from con- and lūdere (“to play”).
Words that rhyme with collude
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
- glued
Questions about collude
- What does collude mean?
- Collude means to act in concert with; to conspire.
- What is collude in Urdu?
- Collude in Urdu is مل جانا, ساز باز ہونا, سازش کرنا. See Collude meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is collude?
- Collude is a verb.
- How do you pronounce collude?
- Collude is pronounced /kəˈluːd/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of collude?
- The past tense of collude is colluded.
Words near collude in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: collude (page history and authors); collude (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collude (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collude (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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