What are some alternative words for elude?
Synonyms for elude
ɪˈlud
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Princeton's WordNet
elude, evade, bilk(verb)
escape, either physically or mentally
"The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
Synonyms:
fudge, duck, hedge, dodge, skirt, bilk, frustrate, circumvent, baffle, foil, cross, parry, evade, thwart, put off, spoil, sidestep, escape, scotchelude, escape(verb)
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
"What you are seeing in him eludes me"
Synonyms:
miss, fudge, run, duck, hedge, dodge, escape, break away, run away, hightail it, skirt, get out, break loose, bilk, get off, bunk, take to the woods, scat, scarper, fly the coop, turn tail, circumvent, head for the hills, parry, get by, evade, put off, sidestep, get away, lamhedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep(verb)
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
"He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
Synonyms:
put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, dodge, remit, fake, duck, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Dictionary of English Synonymes
elude(v. a.)
Synonyms:
escape, avoid, shun, get away from, steal away fromelude(v. a.)
Synonyms:
baffle, frustrate, foil, disconcert, disappoint, BILK
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#464 | table | |
#672 | run | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1517 | ring | |
#1662 | block | |
#2032 | miss | |
#2215 | avoid | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3139 | cook | |
#3282 | border | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4626 | dodge | |
#4719 | ignore | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6185 | skirt | |
#7123 | duck | |
#8175 | fence | |
#8297 | surround | |
#9094 | dip | |
#10417 | scat | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11515 | hedge | |
#11813 | environ | |
#12318 | lam | |
#13413 | mock | |
#15115 | manipulate | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#19709 | bunk | |
#20010 | overlook | |
#20060 | confuse | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#21866 | parry | |
#23567 | defer | |
#24731 | remit | |
#28220 | postpone | |
#31524 | shun | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#35107 | sidestep | |
#35156 | flurry | |
#35306 | evade | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#44754 | deflect | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#57345 | misrepresent | |
#64306 | elude | |
#64838 | falsify | |
#68256 | shirk | |
#75568 | eschew | |
#77925 | outwit | |
#81713 | shelve | |
#94911 | outsmart | |
#110802 | douse | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#141616 | besiege | |
#158476 | overreach | |
#308012 | wangle | |
#311709 | disconcert | |
#322072 | dishearten |
How to use elude in a sentence?
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
I am not one to elude responsibilities, the results are very bad, i only have to say that we are going to start working right now to recover this support and to do so leading the center-right. We had sent warnings out that fragmenting the vote would not be a winning option.
Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It:
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." You can love completely without complete understanding.
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