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elude
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elude as in:  she eluded the police

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The thief eluded the police
eluded = avoided (got away from)
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    The quarterback eluded the linebackers.
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    "You, Tobias—or should I call you Four?—managed to elude me," she says quietly.  (source)
    elude = avoid (get away from)
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    Tailed almost everywhere she went, her mail searched, her friends and family interrogated, Shizuka endured intense scrutiny for two years. When October 1, 1948, came, she went to the restaurant, apparently eluding her pursuers.  (source)
    eluding = avoiding or getting away from
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    In that way she will elude her wicked tormentor and break its evil cycle of birth and death.  (source)
    elude = avoid (get away from)
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    Eluding Jordan's undergraduate, who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside.  (source)
    Eluding = avoiding (getting away from)
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    No. His captors eluded the local police before I landed.  (source)
    eluded = avoided (got away from)
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    But you make it sound like a convenient fantasy, the worst kind of self-d elusion.†  (source)
    elusion = avoidance
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game.  (source)
    eludes = evades (is not caught by)
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    Then fair-haired Menelaos departed glancing everywhither, as an eagle which men say hath keenest sight of all birds under heaven, and though he be far aloft the fleet-footed hare eludeth him not by crouching beneath a leafy bush, but the eagle swoopeth thereon and swiftly seizeth her and taketh her life.†  (source)
    eludeth = avoids (gets away from)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She eludeth" in older English, today we say "She eludes."
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    He fell once, dashing to elude gunfire, and reopened his festering wounds.  (source)
    elude = avoid
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    Harry held the paper up to the candlelight and read: BLACK STILL AT LARGE Sirius Black, possibly the most infamous prisoner ever to be held in Azkaban fortress, is still eluding capture, the Ministry of Magic confirmed today.†  (source)
    eluding = avoiding (getting away from)
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    So the war swept over like a wave at the seashore, gathering power and size as it bore on us, overwhelming in its rush, seemingly inescapable, and then at the last moment eluded by a word from Phineas; I had simply ducked, that was all, and the wave's concentrated power had hurtled harmlessly overhead, no doubt throwing others roughly up on the beach, but leaving me peaceably treading water as before.  (source)
    eluded = avoided
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    There was not much time, however, for thought or elusion, and she yielded as calmly as she could to the necessity of letting him overtake her.†  (source)
    elusion = avoidance
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elude as in:  your point eludes me

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    The point of his story eludes me.
    eludes = is not understood by
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    I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it eluded me.  (source)
    eluded = escaped understanding by
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    The wind was still howling, and something (a word? a phrase?) was still eluding him.  (source)
    eluding = escaping understanding by
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    A curious contest, the nature of which eluded me, was developing between my father and the sheriff.  (source)
    eluded = was not understood by
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    The more anxious I am to find sleep, the more it eludes me.  (source)
    eludes = remains out of reach
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    The fact that the word was eluding a specialist like Leigh Teabing signified to Langdon that it was no ordinary Grail reference.  (source)
    eluding = escaping understanding by
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    She tried to remember how it had felt to stand on the deck of the Dolphin and see before her the harbor of Barbados. The haunting joy eluded her; the dream shores were dim and unreal.  (source)
    eluded = escaped
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    Or rather it's Grace herself who eludes him.  (source)
    eludes = is not understood by
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    I've gotten the little metal cage off the champagne bottle, but the cork is eluding me.  (source)
    eluding = unachievable for
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    Rosemont's surge, unexpected and sudden, may have eluded Pollard until very late in the race.  (source)
    eluded = escaped notice
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    She is lost, vague, trying to catch hold, to make some sense of her former command of the world, but it still eludes her.  (source)
    eludes = escapes understanding (is not understood by)
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    But then, there was so much about her that eluded him.  (source)
    eluded = was not understood by
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    The prolonged and tumultuous argument that ended by herding us into that room eludes me, though I have a sharp physical memory that, in the course of it, my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs and intermittent beads of sweat raced cool across my back.  (source)
    eludes = escapes memory (can't be remembered)
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