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[ih-lood]

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verb (used with object), e·lud·ed, e·lud·ing.

to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade: to elude capture.

to escape the understanding, perception, or appreciation of: The answer eludes me.

Origin:
1530–40; < Latin ēlūdere to deceive, evade, equivalent to ē- e- + lūdere to play, deceive

Related forms

e·lud·er, noun

un·e·lud·ed, adjective

Can be confused: allowed, allude, aloud, elude.

Synonyms
1. shun, dodge. See escape.

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Unfortunately, these skills have apparently eluded certain surgical.

I've had two one-year posts and two adjunct jobs, but a tenure-track position has eluded me.

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Unfortunately, these skills have apparently eluded certain surgical.

I've had two one-year posts and two adjunct jobs, but a tenure-track position has eluded me.

The real prize he seeks is one that eluded his father: a second term.

The fish eluded the human diet until the capacity to harvest the deep seas evolved over the last few decades.

Precisely how the insects find their way to this refuge has long eluded biologists.

But wider acclaim eluded her, and her photographs were rarely published.

It could be an invaluable tool for revealing other, more complicated laws that have eluded humans.

They found something that has eluded astronomers for thousands of years: a story with major box-office potential.

My guess is that each of you is searching for something that has eluded you for a while.

As the article eluded to, many unanswered questions.

But until now the relationship between bird coloring and testosterone had eluded biologists.

Despite the dodo's status as the poster bird for extinction, its evolutionary history has long eluded scientists.

Or, it could be a brilliant way of managing an inevitable shift that eluded other industries to their peril.

Jameswhite's arrest, he jumped bail and has since eluded pursuers.

But he needs to do this with a delicacy of touch that has eluded the congressional wing of his party.

Despite a thorough investigation of the site, the cause of the catastrophe eluded everyone.

The probable causes of testicular cancer have long eluded scientists.

Scientists have deciphered a second genetic code that has eluded molecular biologists for two decades.

But the big prize, that of prime minister, eluded him.

But the site of the village-and conclusive evidence about the fate of the colonists-has eluded historians and archaeologists.

Yet exactly how the creatures, which lack specialized eyes, detect such changes has eluded explanation.

But she began suffering puzzling ailments that eluded treatment.

Researchers say the highland mangabey eluded recognition by the outside world until now for a host of factors.

Details of these events have eluded investigators because such intracellular pathogens are difficult to study.

We scurried down one slope, clambered up another, and headed for the sheep that had eluded us for weeks.

The root of these heart-wrenching fluctuations between cognizance and confusion has eluded scientists for years.

What he'd found so fascinating about this blowin' man eluded me.

Now researchers have taken big steps in creating and using nanostructures that have eluded manipulation in the past.

It is a phenomenon that has eluded description for centuries.

The cloning of horses and other equids eluded them, however, despite numerous attempts.

The male half of the equation has long eluded them, however.

Whereas researchers have managed to make skin and cartilage, functional vital organs have eluded them.

He was responding to a comment that eluded to a theoretical global conspiracy by pharmaceutical companies.

The first stars, long a target for researchers, have eluded detection thus far.

The black area shows which civilizations could have eluded our radio searches, either because they are too far away or.

Wilson a peace brooch, but peace eluded her husband and the world.

Some pieces have been the focus of court battles, while others have eluded copyright lawyers.

Fioravanti, who, for so many years has eluded every attempt on the part of.

Kilcullen's crew hoped to find those slippery counterinsurgency metrics that had eluded the military for so long.

Still, the majority of excluded pupils are defiant teenage boys who have eluded the net of special needs altogether.

But promising new research indicates that a biogel made from seaweed may have the healing powers that have thus far eluded them.

He eluded all manner of traps and the best marksmen in the country.

Day finally getting an award that has eluded her throughout her career.

But integrating the two materials in a transistor has eluded researchers for more than half a century.

The suspect with the gun eluded capture but was shot soon afterward.

As eluded to earlier, farm prices have been extremely low for the last number of decades.

China's wealth has eluded the countryside, but there is a bull market in sects competing for the souls of the rural poor.

Yet the life support systems that sustain the planet have eluded their grasp.

The study team now hopes to replicate its findings in living reindeer, which has thus far eluded them.

Affecting the effortless command of a seasoned investor, he strove to project the authority that had eluded him in real life.

Vasquez eluded authorities, the more his legend grew.

It is indeed frustrating that incontrovertible evidence for the dark matter particle has still eluded researchers.

People came up with the wheel and numerous other useful inventions that seem to have eluded evolution.

McDowell says, though he realizes this point has long eluded casting directors.

It eluded people for many years, until they dug under the rock and found letters and names that were written upside down.

O'Connell brings the power of computers and common sense to a problem that has eluded political solutions.

Yet for more than a century, the event that inspired it has eluded identification.

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Word Origin & History

elude

1530s, "delude, make a fool of," from L. eludere "escape from, make a fool of, win from at play," from ex- "out, away" + ludere "to play" (see ludicrous). Sense of "evade" is first recorded 1610s. Related: Eluded; eludes; eluding.

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