elude
/ɪˈlud/ verb C1- To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill.
- To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip.
- To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to. · I get algebra, but calculus eludes me.
- To escape someone's memory, to slip someone's mind. · The solution of that brainteaser eludes me and the name of the author eludes my memory too.
He/she/it eludes · Past eluded · Past participle eluded · -ing form eluding
Verb forms
- Base form
- elude
- He/she/it
- eludes
- Past
- eluded
- Past participle
- eluded
- -ing form
- eluding
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In fact, the pursuing vessel had almost overtaken them when, fortunately, night came on, and enabled them to double the Cape of Corsica, and so elude all further pursuit.
They attacked him in various ways, with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all; and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
Danglars resembled a timid animal excited in the chase; first it flies, then despairs, and at last, by the very force of desperation, sometimes succeeds in eluding its pursuers.
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