[1834] elude

[보카길라잡이]

tr.v. e·lud·ed, e·lud·ing, e·ludes

1. To evade or escape from, as by daring, cleverness, or skill: The suspect continues to elude the police.
2. To escape the understanding or grasp of: a name that has always eluded me; a metaphor that eluded them. See Synonyms at escape.

elude

v 1: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" [syn: evade, bilk]

2: be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" [syn: escape]

3: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]

Synonyms: escape, avoid, shun, eschew, evade, elude
These verbs mean to get or stay away from persons or things.

Escape can mean to get free or to remain untouched or unaffected by something unwanted: “Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided” (Ulysses S. Grant).

Avoid always involves an effort to keep away from what is considered to be a source of danger or difficulty: avoiding strenuous exercise.

Shun refers to deliberately keeping clear of what is unwelcome or undesirable: “Family friends... she shunned like the plague” (John Galsworthy).

Eschew involves staying clear of something because to do otherwise would be unwise or morally wrong: “Eschew evil, and do good” (Book of Common Prayer).

Evade implies adroit maneuvering and sometimes implies dishonesty or irresponsibility: tried to evade jury duty.

To elude is to get away from artfully: eluded their pursuers.

 -  elusive

adj 1: difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"

2: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline [syn: evasive]

3: be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: subtle]

[마스터현태]

elude 교묘하게 피하다. ~을 면하다. ; 회피하다.

[정사랑]

교묘히 피하다