elude

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  1. transitive verb To evade or escape from, as by daring, cleverness, or skill: The suspect continues to elude the police.
  2. transitive verb To escape the understanding or grasp of: a name that has always eluded me; a metaphor that eluded them. See Synonyms at escape.

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  • But no needle-sharp fangs sank into her leg; the only enemy she had to elude was her own fatigue. —  Challenging Destiny #19
  • Hence, unbiassed by the prejudices of the hour, unswayed by the flattering schemes of personal interests, he brought his great powers to bear upon current questions with a force that it was hard to resist or elude, and with a sagacity almost prophetic. —  Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
  • Their disadvantages in- elude short shelf life, toxicity, corrosiveness, lengthy reaction time and complicated application procedures. —  Analog January, 1971
  • A spiritual director will help us to map out a course of action which will assist us to shake off some little of the dust of this dusty world; and a doctor will lay down for us a dietary which will help us to elude, for a time at least, the insidious onsets of the gout. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
  • Centuries have again passed away, disclosing gradually new properties of the magnet to the ardent and eager pursuit of human curiosity, still stimulated by constant observation of the phenomena connected with this metallic substance, dug from the bowels of the earth, yet seeming more and more to elude or defy all the ordinary laws of matter. —  Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
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  1. Latin ēlūdere : ē-, ex-, ex- + lūdere, to play (from lūdus, play; see leid- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French éluder = Spanish Portuguese eludir = Italian eludere, from Latin eludere, finish play, win at play, elude or parry a blow, frustrate, deceive, mock, from e, out, + ludere, play: see ludicrous. Cf. allude, collude, delude, illude.
 

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