elude

See also: éludé and élude

English

Etymology

From Latin ēlūdō (“evade, elude”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + lūdō (“play; trick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈluːd/

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Verb

1. (transitive) to evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 26.

     Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

2. (transitive) to shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip
   • 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Podolski gave Walcott a chance to further embellish Arsenal's first-half performance when he eluded James Perch and slipped the ball through to the striker.

3. (transitive) to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to

Related terms

• allude
• delude
• illude

 

Translations

to evade, or escape from someone or something

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
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• Bulgarian: избягвам (bg) (izbjagvam), отбягвам (bg) (otbjagvam)
• Catalan: eludir (ca)
• Czech: vyhýbat se impf
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: sich entziehen (de), entgehen (de), entkommen (de), umgehen (de), aus dem Weg gehen
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Latin: ēlūdō
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: اجتناب کردن (fa), تفره رفتن
• Portuguese: escapar (pt)
• Romanian: eluda (ro)
• Russian: ускользать (ru) impf (uskolʹzatʹ)
• Spanish: eludir (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to shake off a pursuer

• German: abschütteln, sich absetzen von (de), sich entziehen (de), entkommen (de), entgehen (de)
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to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to

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Anagrams

• Deuel

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

elude

1. third-person singular present indicative of eludere

Anagrams

• edule

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ēlūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ēlūdō

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Portuguese

Verb

elude

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈlude/ [eˈlu.ð̞e]

Verb

elude

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of eludir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of eludir.