| Main Entry: |
elude |
| Part of Speech: |
verb |
| Definition: |
avoid; escape |
Synonyms: |
baffle, be beyond someone, beat around the bush, bilk,
circumvent,
confound, cop out,
ditch,
dodge,
double,
duck,
eschew,
evade,
flee,
fly,
foil,
frustrate, get around, get away from, give the runaround, give the slip, give wide berth to, hem and haw, not touch, outrun, outwit, pass the buck, pass up,
puzzle, run around, shirk, shuck,
shun,
shy,
stall, stay shy of, steer clear of, stonewall, stump,
thwart
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| Notes: |
elude means to escape or evade from while allude means to make a more or less indirect reference to |
Antonyms: |
attract, confront, encounter, entice, face, invite, meet, take on
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