Elude is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELUDE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to evade
• escape from or avoid (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skilful or cunning way
• avoid compliance with (a law or penalty)
• (of an achievement or something desired) fail to be attained by (someone)
• (of an idea or fact) fail to be understood or remembered by (someone)
• escape from by cleverness or quickness
• To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.
• escape, either physically or mentally
• be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

Words related to ELUDE

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Words that contain ELUDE

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How to use ELUDE in a sentence

• There was no obscure or shadowy corner in which for a few moments he might elude his executioner.
• Still more, one is conscious of a prevailing Indian atmosphere, that may sometimes elude analysis, yet none the less fails not to make itself felt.
• Hermia managed to elude the watchful Trevelyan and entered the ball-room with Beatrice Coddington and Caroline Anstell.
• Numerous were the precautions exercised by the gang of thieves with whom I now resided, to elude the vigilance of the satellites of justice.
• Her dart to the left was only the effort to elude him for that instant, and she was not aware of the mouth of the creek until she had entered it.
• Men seek, feeling their way, a road that seems to elude them.
• It made repeated attempts to jump upon its foe, which, in spite of the crippled condition of its leg and the loss of blood, Arundel found it difficult to elude.
• Gower remarks, it is perfectly wonderful how well he and Marryatt and the other men can elude him.
• We may elude the vigilance of a human enemy and place ourselves beyond his reach.
• What would be left to me if he were taken after all, and you were known to have assisted him in his endeavours to elude the police? I could not bear it.
• This morning early two men were sent to complete the covering of the cache, which could not be so perfectly done during the night as to elude the search of the Indians.
• This crime in its nature has been such as to elude our grasp owing to the limited time of our session.
• Even without a formal disguise he could elude pursuit.
• This severe law did not suffice to prevent a fatal duel, the actors of which probably expected to elude the penalty with the usual facility.
• He jumped backwards, knowing he must elude that attack, for he could not survive hand-to-hand combat with the alien thing.
• He had been trying to elude the charge of the beast, only, fear and that desperate desire had occupied his mind at that moment.
• Science advances with ever more and yet more caution, but each new step only confirms the conviction that the really commanding secrets of existence will forever elude discovery.
• He was, however, unable to elude the vigilance, or to baffle the penetration of the British cabinet.
• This debate took place on the presentation of the Roman Catholic petition, on which occasion ministers were anxious to elude the question.
• This last arrangement did not work well, the Chinese governor continuing to elude the vigilance of the commission, and perform many hostile and even cruel acts.
• He did not know where he was going, more than that he was going to elude pursuit and find a suitable spot in which to camp for the night.
• Although a multitude of laws are directed against me I have managed to elude the greater number of them.
• Still, as there was on his track that human panther, Felini, it is not strange poor Brisson failed to elude him.
• Never for a moment could Silvermane elude the huge roan, the tight halter, the relentless Navajo.
• These managed to elude the American and French cloud-fighters and disappeared in the mist in the direction of the German lines.
• I abruptly changed my course, making a wide circle, and was able to elude my pursuer and find my way back to Bromley.
• The double position he held enabled him to elude all control.
• The effect of my crime is too obvious to be longer concealed, to elude the invidious eye of curiosity.
• Charles, being a Baltimorean, had not far to travel, but had pretty sharp hunters to elude.

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