Definitions for elude

elude e·lude

Spelling: [ih-lood]
IPA: /ɪˈlud/

Elude is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in elude (deelu).

Definitions for elude

verb (used with object)

  1. to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade: Synonyms: shun, dodge.
  2. to escape the understanding, perception, or appreciation of:

Origin of elude

1530-40; Latin ēlūdere to deceive, evade, equivalent to ē- e-1 + lūdere to play, deceive

Examples for elude

He knew her power; perhaps that was why his instinct had led him to elude it.

They would have assumed that they needed to get far out over an ocean to elude that.

This was to elude a successful German envelopment on their Louvain right.

That I could elude Rima's keener eyes I doubted; but that did not trouble me.

Elsewhere, she tells her inamorata, “It does not matter if you elude my arms/my dear, when thought alone can imprison you.”

They constantly move him from place to place, hoping to elude any U.S. efforts to find him, Hanif says.

That it was so vague as to elude the support of argument made it only the stronger.

Beautiful, daring and smart, Sophie managed to elude arrest on many occasions.

But Shailene Woodley, both onscreen and off, seems to elude quick characterization.

The Baron was fixing his eyes on her and she tried to elude his gaze.

Word Value for elude
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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