With luck and quick maneuvering he was able to elude them, but just barely.
Crime prevention seems to elude even the most advanced countries.
These areas release chemicals that are essential to elude danger but are also destructive to rational thought.
There is so much more, to discover and understand, so many possibilities that elude us.
They elude the ordinary reader by their abstraction and delicacy of distinction, but they are far from vague.
Rather, their instinctual intelligence offers lessons that elude our own thinking.
The mysteries of space will continue to elude us for quite some time until the majority of us are committed to exploring it.
Some migrants, however, still use methods that elude the bean counters.
Memory researchers suggest additional reasons that great jokes may elude common capture.
Flat growths that elude colonoscopy may account for many cancers.
British Dictionary definitions for elude
elude
/ɪˈluːd/
verb (transitive)
1.
to escape or avoid (capture, one's pursuers, etc), esp by cunning
2.
to avoid fulfilment of (a responsibility, obligation, etc); evade
3.
to escape discovery, or understanding by; baffle: the solution eluded her
Derived Forms
eluder, noun elusion (ɪˈluːʒən) noun
Usage note
Elude is sometimes wrongly used where allude is meant: he was alluding (not eluding) to his previous visit to the city
Word Origin
C16: from Latin ēlūdere to deceive, from lūdere to play
Word Origin and History for elude
v.
1530s, "delude, make a fool of," from Latin eludere "escape from, make a fool of, win from at play," from ex- "out, away" (see ex-) + ludere "to play" (see ludicrous). Sense of "evade" is first recorded 1610s in a figurative sense, 1630s in a literal one. Related: Eluded; eludes; eluding.