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# elude

«elude» in Mova's school dictionary: **To escape from someone or something by being clever or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (elude, eludes, eluded, eluding)

### meaning for a pupil

To escape from someone or something by being clever or fast, so they cannot catch or find you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elude/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a hunted creature slips away, or a shape-changer avoids a suitor

### examples

- The quail always eluded the falcon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elude/#x1)
- The thief eluded the police for a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elude/#x2)
- Thetis changed her shape to elude Peleus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elude/#x3)
- The answer eluded me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elude/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «elude» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elude/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.