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Eluding

Elude \E*lude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Eluding.] [L. eludere, elusum; e + ludere to play: cf. F. 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.

Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain.
--Pope.

The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition.
--Tylor.

Syn: To evade; avoid; escape; shun; eschew; flee; mock; baffle; frustrate; foil.

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eluding

vb. (present participle of elude English)

WordNet
eluding

n. the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) [syn: slip, elusion]

Usage examples of "eluding".

If the foundry is her intended destination, she may well have a method of eluding us already in place.

I don’t care how good he is at eluding our sensors, the little shit can’t walk a thousand kilometres along a vacuum tunnel.

She also thought there must be a subtle trick to negotiating the crowd which was eluding her.

They regarded the little band of tenacious corporeal humans with grudging respect, avoiding direct eye contact like a shoplifter eluding the store detective.

Alison lost that draw and the game required lots of splashing and swimming and shrieking for those eluding the tagger.

She was there when he returned, easily eluding the searching muscle men who were as noisy mentally as they were physically.

Then they were told off on another tangent as the queens' wing headed for a heavier concentration of Thread, eluding an easterly flying wing.

The moment of revenge he'd waited twenty years for had finally come, the gun was in his hand, but the target was still eluding him, snatched away by madness.

With no memory, she had little chance of proving her innocence or eluding the villains behind the prize stallion's mysterious disappearance.

Maybe, as a woman, she could put her finger on the reason that was eluding him.

She had always wondered why women would aid their husbands or boyfriends in eluding the law, and now she knew why.

There was a tantalizing suggestion always present in his mind that something was eluding him--that he should know many things which he did not know.

His one hope lay in eluding him, and making for the far distant camp of Achmet Zek as rapidly as he could.