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What does elude mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word elude? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
  2. (transitive) To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
  3. (transitive) To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.
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But with six million square miles of ocean, drug runners often elude authorities.
Children who acquire more than one language early can develop thinking skills that may elude monolingual children of the same age.
I elude authority and make a tidy living being the mutinous karate girl in the corner.
Although he turned off into St Denys Road to elude his pursuer, he was hit from behind by a bottle and rugby-tackled to the ground.
Its text and illuminations, unique in both style and subject matter, elude literary and art historical categorization.
So here, imagination allows us to glimpse truths of a kind that seem to elude reason operating alone.

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