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Meaning elude meaning

What does elude mean?

elude

— verb (= evade) escape, either physically or mentally The thief eluded the police This difficult idea seems to evade her The event evades explanation — verb (= escape) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by What you are seeing in him eludes me — verb (= evade, skirt, dodge) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) He dodged the issue she skirted the problem They tend to evade their responsibilities he evaded the questions skillfully

Synonyms elude synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as elude?

elude English » English

evade avoid escape dodge shirk duck circumvent sidestep shun avert steer clear of flee bilk ward off slip skirt put off prevaricate parry keep away from hedge get away from fudge escape from equivocate bypass yield wriggle turn aside tergiversate take flight stay away from stampede squeak through squeak by sneak away slip away sidetrack shuffle shift shake off run away quibble puzzle palter outrun ornament mystify miss mislead

Topics elude topics

What do people use elude to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape

Conjugation elude conjugation

How do you conjugate elude?

elude · verb

Examples elude examples

How do I use elude in a sentence?

Simple sentences

She managed to elude the embarrassing situation that she found herself in.

Movie subtitles

We'll elude the death throes of a languishing love.
Then the other three still elude me. And all escaped detection by the directional beam.
How can he elude 100 men?
YOU KNOW, YOUR THOUGHT PROCESSES ELUDE ME.
But let Old Shatterhand be warned to elude battle.
No policeman alive can stay on his trail if he wishes to elude him.
Knowing how the ship is designed, where would you go to elude a search?
Your negative side removed from you, the power of command begins to elude you.
They elude us like clouds in the wind.
Your words elude me.
By some miracle, Sonja managed to elude the French and escape.
But how did you elude the deadly scorpion?
All we can hope to gain from Gamoray is the fuel we need to elude those base ships.
In the interest of a fair trial, I'm going to suggest. there's something about our proceedings which seem to elude Mr. Horn here.
We elude them in Europe, and now we meet them on the same boat.
And still they elude us.
YOU KNOW, YOUR THOUGHT PROCESSES ELUDE ME. THEY POS ITIVELY ELU DE ME.
To elude us, you shouldn't have left that stolen car downstairs.
Knowing how the ship is laid out, where would you go to elude a search?
Actually, I think even the box step would elude me this evening.
The parameters of existence often elude us.
Help my daughter to find that tiny, helpless baby. that continues somehow to elude her.
After playing hide-and-seek through several solar systems, I think I've managed to elude them.
What possible expression in any face could elude the artist. who has painted Mrs. Siddons, the greatest of actresses?
But it will always elude them.
She could only elude them by moving on. anywhere. ceaselessly.
I would have taken you to the Eye of Orion, but. The coordinates elude me at the moment.
And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us but we can still love them.
But I have realised that freedom would elude me until Jack Slater was, forgive the pun, taken out of the picture.
All one has to do is elude capture long enough to change hosts and then he or she can go free.
Did you think you could elude us forever, Carlos?

News and current affairs

Clinton used his presidential pardon to allow wealthy cronies to elude justice.
PRINCETON - Though a solution to the euro crisis continues to elude European leaders, the foundations of one are not difficult to discern.
This only underscores the major protection that bin Laden must have received from elements of the Pakistani security establishment to help him elude the US dragnet for nearly a decade.
The details may elude voters and some investors, but the focus of policy is not on restoring medium- and long-term growth and employment.
Given the ironic reversal of globalization fears, Kipling is still right: convergence has continued to elude East and West.
They are often passed down within families, so they elude social policies that are based on the notion that equality of opportunity can be created by government action.

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