Elude
verb
To avoid or escape something or someone, especially in a clever or tricky way.
The thief managed to elude the police for weeks.
Often appears as...
- elude capture
- elude detection
verb
To fail to be achieved or realized by someone.
The championship title has eluded him for years.
Often appears as...
- elude grasp
- elude reach
verb
To not be remembered or understood by someone.
The exact details of the plan still elude me.
Often appears as...
- details elude me
- name eludes me
verb
To avoid or escape something or someone, especially in a clever or tricky way.
The thief managed to elude the police for weeks.
Often appears as...
- elude capture
- elude detection
verb
To fail to be achieved or realized by someone.
The championship title has eluded him for years.
Often appears as...
- elude grasp
- elude reach
verb
To not be remembered or understood by someone.
The exact details of the plan still elude me.
Often appears as...
- details elude me
- name eludes me
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Clever Evasion
Used when someone avoids or escapes cleverly, like in a movie chase scene.
The spy managed to elude his pursuers with a disguise.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Detection
Often implies avoiding being noticed or caught in various situations.
Despite many obstacles, the activists eluded surveillance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
Can also mean avoiding non-physical things, like evading a topic in conversation.
At the meeting, she skillfully eluded any questions about her retirement plans.
Pro Tip 1/3Clever Evasion
Used when someone avoids or escapes cleverly, like in a movie chase scene.
The spy managed to elude his pursuers with a disguise.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Detection
Often implies avoiding being noticed or caught in various situations.
Despite many obstacles, the activists eluded surveillance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
Can also mean avoiding non-physical things, like evading a topic in conversation.
At the meeting, she skillfully eluded any questions about her retirement plans.
Pro Tip 1/3Clever Evasion
Used when someone avoids or escapes cleverly, like in a movie chase scene.
The spy managed to elude his pursuers with a disguise.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Detection
Often implies avoiding being noticed or caught in various situations.
Despite many obstacles, the activists eluded surveillance.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
Can also mean avoiding non-physical things, like evading a topic in conversation.
At the meeting, she skillfully eluded any questions about her retirement plans.
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and it folds up like a leaf to elude predators. So now you see it, now you don't, something hidden, something revealed. Maybe we got our ideas about the human soul from this butterfly. So it's possible that butterflies have some sort of outsized role in our afterlife. But in this life, in this world, butterflies are in really serious trouble.
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The Strange Tail of...
have eluded researchers ever since from a scientific point of view the fact that these things had survived for millions of years and they get wiped out in a bombing raid is just it just feels like the ultimate you know cruel twist of fate you know just at the moment we're about to discover
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Ryan Lobo: Photographing...
I basically decided that it was I, not the camera or the network, or anything that lay outside myself, that was the only instrument in storytelling truly worth tuning. In my life, when I tried to achieve things like success or recognition, they eluded me.
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Liz Coleman's call to...
Our public education, once a model for the world, has become most noteworthy for its failures. Mastery of basic skills and a bare minimum of cultural literacy eludes vast numbers of our students. Despite having a research establishment
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Paralyzed Rats Walk...
far such a result has eluded scientists the therapy the impact of this type of intervention in humans is difficult to predict but this very surprising plasticity and recovery that we have observed in the rat open promise'
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
this backdrop is way more challenging than i could ever have imagined it takes skill patience and dedication and even then the perfectly camouflaged cats often elude the team do you have any specific techniques you
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Claire Malone: The...
conservation of energy, is incorrect. Or as everyone is hoping, the missing energy could have been stolen by particles that elude our detectors and could help us answer some of the most fundamental questions
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Context determines...
the truth beyond that as a morale chatter which they keep the secrecy and all that has eluded to them that is what till today so many masks you eat are powerful in our society and when they
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Why the Dinosaurs’...
to the downright bizarre some pointed out of control hormones or cataracts others blamed a world taken over by hungry caterpillars the answers eluded
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How you can help save...
and it folds up like a leaf to elude predators. So now you see it, now you don't, something hidden, something revealed. Maybe we got our ideas about the human soul from this butterfly. So it's possible that butterflies have some sort of outsized role in our afterlife. But in this life, in this world, butterflies are in really serious trouble.
Video examples
The Strange Tail of...
have eluded researchers ever since from a scientific point of view the fact that these things had survived for millions of years and they get wiped out in a bombing raid is just it just feels like the ultimate you know cruel twist of fate you know just at the moment we're about to discover
Video examples
Ryan Lobo: Photographing...
I basically decided that it was I, not the camera or the network, or anything that lay outside myself, that was the only instrument in storytelling truly worth tuning. In my life, when I tried to achieve things like success or recognition, they eluded me.
Video examples
Liz Coleman's call to...
Our public education, once a model for the world, has become most noteworthy for its failures. Mastery of basic skills and a bare minimum of cultural literacy eludes vast numbers of our students. Despite having a research establishment
Video examples
What is Alzheimer's...
Every four seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. It's the most common cause of dementia, affecting over 40 million people worldwide, and yet finding a cure is something that still eludes researchers today.
Video examples
Paralyzed Rats Walk...
far such a result has eluded scientists the therapy the impact of this type of intervention in humans is difficult to predict but this very surprising plasticity and recovery that we have observed in the rat open promise'
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
this backdrop is way more challenging than i could ever have imagined it takes skill patience and dedication and even then the perfectly camouflaged cats often elude the team do you have any specific techniques you
Video examples
Claire Malone: The...
conservation of energy, is incorrect. Or as everyone is hoping, the missing energy could have been stolen by particles that elude our detectors and could help us answer some of the most fundamental questions
Video examples
Context determines...
the truth beyond that as a morale chatter which they keep the secrecy and all that has eluded to them that is what till today so many masks you eat are powerful in our society and when they
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Why the Dinosaurs’...
to the downright bizarre some pointed out of control hormones or cataracts others blamed a world taken over by hungry caterpillars the answers eluded
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German Economist
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
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I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.
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Andre Gide
French Novelist
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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Meghan Daum
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American Journalist
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Paul Auster
American Author
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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Mary McAleese
Irish Statesman
It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.
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Michael Musto
American Writer
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.
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Hjalmar Schacht
German Economist
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
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Liza Minnelli
American Actress
I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.
Quote examples
Andre Gide
French Novelist
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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Meghan Daum
American Author
Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
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Sarah Weinman
American Journalist
The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
American Author
I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.
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Paul Auster
American Author
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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