In order to elude the eager public, the movie star checked into the hotel under a false name.
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Elude
//ɪˈljuːd//
Synonyms for "elude" (107 found)
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4 entriesderived
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- избягвам verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- отбягвам verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Catalan
3 entries- eludir verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- estar oblidat verb (to escape so.'s memory)
- oblidar verb (to escape so.'s memory)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 躲避 verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- 逃避 verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Czech
4 entries- unikat verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- unikat verb (to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to)
- uniknout verb (to shake off a pursuer)
- vyhýbat se verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Danish
4 entries- flygte verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- rømme verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- stikke af verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- undgå verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
French
2 entries- oublier verb (to escape so.'s memory)
- éluder verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
German
4 entries- abschütteln verb (to shake off a pursuer)
- aus dem Weg gehen verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- entfallen sein verb (to escape so.'s memory)
- entgehen verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Italian
2 entries- eludere verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- stare dimenticato verb (to escape so.'s memory)
Khmer
1 entries- គេច verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Latin
3 entries- dēdiscor verb (to escape so.'s memory)
- dēdoceor verb (to escape so.'s memory)
- ēlūdō verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Persian
2 entries- اجتناب کردن verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- تفره رفتن verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Portuguese
3 entries- escapar verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- esquivar verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- estar esquecido verb (to escape so.'s memory)
Romanian
1 entries- eluda verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Russian
2 entries- ускользать verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- ускользать verb (to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to)
Spanish
3 entries- eludir verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- estar olvidado verb (to escape so.'s memory)
- olvidársele verb (to escape so.'s memory)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вислизати verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Vietnamese
2 entries- né tránh verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
- trốn chạy khỏi verb (to evade, or escape from someone or something)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
She managed to elude the embarrassing situation that she found herself in.
Source: tatoeba (5034364)
Tom managed to elude capture.
Source: tatoeba (5736667)
Tom managed to elude the police for three weeks.
Source: tatoeba (8875283)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.