What is another word for elude?
Synonyms for elude
ɪˈludelude
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elude, evade, bilkverb
escape, either physically or mentally
"The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
Synonyms:
fudge, duck, hedge, dodge, skirt, bilk, frustrate, circumvent, baffle, foil, cross, parry, evade, thwart, put off, spoil, sidestep, escape, scotchelude, escapeverb
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
"What you are seeing in him eludes me"
Synonyms:
miss, fudge, run, duck, hedge, dodge, escape, break away, run away, hightail it, skirt, get out, break loose, bilk, get off, bunk, take to the woods, scat, scarper, fly the coop, turn tail, circumvent, head for the hills, parry, get by, evade, put off, sidestep, get away, lamhedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
"He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
Synonyms:
put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, dodge, remit, fake, duck, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
eludeverb
Synonyms:
escape, avoid, shun, get away from, steal away fromeludeverb
Synonyms:
baffle, frustrate, foil, disconcert, disappoint, BILK
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#464 | table | |
#672 | run | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1517 | ring | |
#1662 | block | |
#2032 | miss | |
#2215 | avoid | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3139 | cook | |
#3282 | border | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4626 | dodge | |
#4719 | ignore | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6185 | skirt | |
#7123 | duck | |
#8175 | fence | |
#8297 | surround | |
#9094 | dip | |
#10417 | scat | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11515 | hedge | |
#11813 | environ | |
#12318 | lam | |
#13413 | mock | |
#15115 | manipulate | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#19709 | bunk | |
#20010 | overlook | |
#20060 | confuse | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#21866 | parry | |
#23567 | defer | |
#24731 | remit | |
#28220 | postpone | |
#31524 | shun | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#35107 | sidestep | |
#35156 | flurry | |
#35306 | evade | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#44754 | deflect | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#57345 | misrepresent | |
#64306 | elude | |
#64838 | falsify | |
#68256 | shirk | |
#75568 | eschew | |
#77925 | outwit | |
#81713 | shelve | |
#94911 | outsmart | |
#110802 | douse | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#141616 | besiege | |
#158476 | overreach | |
#308012 | wangle | |
#311709 | disconcert | |
#322072 | dishearten |
How to use elude in a sentence?
As long as it's raging, other variants could develop, the next one could elude our vaccine, and that could derail the recovery.
Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It:
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." You can love completely without complete understanding.
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
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