allude

CEFRC2

/əˈljuːd/

verb

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01
verb
To mention something indirectly without explaining it fully.
02
verb
Extra detail
To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

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Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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She would often allude to her time spent in Paris.
First, she alluded to her husband as "the man at home looking after the children". Then she referred to him as "my George".
These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

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It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
2012 January 26, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23

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From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”). See also al-.