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allude to

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allude to someone or something
to refer to someone or something; to make an implication about someone or something. I did not mean to allude to someone you disliked so much. I alluded to the accident only once.

allude to somebody/something (slightly formal)
to refer to someone or something briefly or indirectly In his letter, Dick alluded to problems the company was facing, but he never suggested they were going out of business.


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The death of my Parents a few weeks after my Departure, is the circumstance I allude to.
And he shut up any of his thoughtless comrades who attempted to allude to his connection.
She sang him his favorite songs, showed him her album, making him write in it, did not allow him to allude to the past, letting it be understood how was the present; and every day he went away in a fog, without having said what he meant to, and not knowing what he was doing or why he came, or how it would all end.
 
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