verb [VN]
1 to manage to avoid or escape from sb/sth, especially in a clever way:
The two men managed to elude the police for six weeks.
2 if sth eludes you, you are not able to achieve it, or not able to remember or understand it:
He was extremely tired but sleep eluded him. * They're a popular band but chart success has eluded them so far. * Finally he remembered the tiny detail that had eluded him the night before.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for elude is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does elude appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — elude appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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