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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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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.
So here, imagination allows us to glimpse truths of a kind that seem to elude reason operating alone.
Miraculously, the group of 15 Indians managed to elude the dragnet that was forming and escaped with the aid of local residents.
Laura Blackburne, a judge who presides over a drug court in New York City, helped a suspect elude arrest in her courtroom.
He was killed as he and his bodyguards tried to elude police by climbing onto a rooftop of the house where they were hiding.

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