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e⋅lude

  [i-lood]
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–verb (used with object), e⋅lud⋅ed, e⋅lud⋅ing.
1. to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade: to elude capture.
2. to escape the understanding, perception, or appreciation of: The answer eludes me.
Origin:
1530–40; < L ēlūdere to deceive, evade, equiv. to ē- e- + lūdere to play, deceive

Related forms:
e⋅lud⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. shun, dodge. See escape.
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e·lude   (ĭ-lōōd')   
tr.v.   e·lud·ed, e·lud·ing, e·ludes

  1. To evade or escape from, as by daring, cleverness, or skill: The suspect continues to elude the police.

  2. To escape the understanding or grasp of: a name that has always eluded me; a metaphor that eluded them. See Synonyms at escape.


[Latin ēlūdere : ē-, ex-, ex- + lūdere, to play (from lūdus, play; see leid- in Indo-European roots).]
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Word Origin & History

elude 
1538, "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 1612. Elusive first attested 1725.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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