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Meanings of elude (eluded) in English

Portuguese
evitar
Catalan
evitar
Spanish
rehuir

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

      evitar
      Catalan
      escapar-se

      Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.

            escapar-se
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            Examples for "escape"
            Examples for "escape"
            1
            Last year his parents decided he should try to escape to Europe.
            The Guardian
            2
            How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape?
            Mockingjay
            3
            Neither side will escape challenge: this research will impact on the vote.
            The Guardian
            4
            They allow people to escape their reality and enter a new one.
            The new yorker
            5
            Now he decided a different course of escape might be in order.
            Dhampir
            Usage of eluded in English
            1
            The answer to my problems was so obvious that it eluded me.
            How to make love like a porn star
            2
            Ireland exudes a new self-confidence and maturity that eluded many earlier generations.
            The Irish Times
            3
            Fortune appears to have eluded Vancouver Organizers thus far in the Games.
            Reuters
            4
            The stratagems that had so long eluded me were now made clear.
            A conspiracy of paper: a novel
            5
            Iniesta had eluded Arturo Vidal and was running into the penalty area.
            The Guardian
            6
            Did she hope he would forget her if she eluded his notice?
            The captive
            7
            It was familiar, but it eluded him; he could not place it.
            The World for Sale, Volume 2.
            8
            Even with her skills, major success has eluded the Brazilian women's team.
            Reuters
            9
            If this is in the Bible, the passage has eluded my inquiries.
            Lay Morals, and Other Papers
            10
            The police continued to search for the suspect that had eluded them.
            The South African
            11
            As I raised it, I eluded the pinioning grip of the troopers.
            Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
            12
            But, although it eluded us in the darkness, it did not leave.
            The After House
            13
            But, having pretty much eluded Leno, the really shocking part came next.
            The Guardian
            14
            The shout came from the soldiers whom I had so narrowly eluded.
            An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of t...
            15
            Now 66, he thought the chance to be Romeo had eluded him.
            The Guardian
            16
            But, search as she would, the actual subject of disagreement eluded her.
            The Snare
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            Translations for eluded
            Eluded through the time
            Eluded across language varieties
            Ireland
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Common