elude

elude is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.
2. verb. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

   "He dodged the issue"

   "she skirted the problem"

   Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt

3. verb. escape, either physically or mentally

   "The thief eluded the police"

   "This difficult idea seems to evade her"

   Synonyms: bilk, evade

4. verb. be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

   "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

   Synonyms: escape

Synonyms

circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt, bilk, escape

Common word forms

eluded, eluder, eludes, eluding

Words from these letters

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