01 v. t. To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to…
imp. & p. p.
Eluded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Eluding
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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.“Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain.” — Pope.“The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition.” — Tylor.