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Definition of Elude
1. Verb. Escape, either physically or mentally. "The event evades explanation"
Generic synonyms: Break Loose, Escape, Get Away
Derivative terms: Eluding, Elusion, Elusive, Evasion
2. Verb. Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by. "The performance is likely to elude Sue"; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
Generic synonyms: Amaze, Baffle, Beat, Bewilder, Dumbfound, Flummox, Get, Gravel, Mystify, Nonplus, Perplex, Pose, Puzzle, Stick, Stupefy, Vex
Specialized synonyms: Defy, Refuse, Resist
Derivative terms: Elusive, Elusive
3. Verb. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues). "He evaded the questions skillfully"
Specialized synonyms: Beg, Quibble
Generic synonyms: Avoid
Derivative terms: Circumvention, Dodge, Dodger, Dodging, Dodging, Evasion, Hedge, Hedger, Hedging
Definition of Elude
1. v. t. To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.
Definition of Elude
1. Verb. (transitive) To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elude
1. to evade [v ELUDED, ELUDING, ELUDES] - See also: evade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elude
Literary usage of Elude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes, with Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from by George Crabb (1854)
"elude and evade both imply the practice of art; but the former consists mostly
of actions, thy latter of words as well as actions: a thief elude» those who ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"To elude this he ordered himself to be buried half in the church and half out of it.
His coffin, or rather the cup of it, is to be seen of exceeding hard ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"elude the plaintiffs from showing that no relation of landlord and tenant ever
existed between Home and the defendant, or between the widow of Home and ..."
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