Definitions For Elude

verb

  • Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • Escape, either physically or mentally
  • Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
  • To avoid or escape (someone or something) by being quick, skillful, or clever
  • To fail to be understood or remembered by (someone)
  • To fail to be achieved by (someone)

Is Elude a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
6
Words with Friends
8

The word Elude is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Elude in a Sentence

  • The killer was able to elude the police.
  • The killer has eluded capture.
  • The cause of the disease continues to elude researchers.

Synonyms for Elude

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