elude

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• /ɪˈljuːd/ Received Pronunciation, faded in Canada mid-20th century
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• British, Southern, Standard: [ɪˈlʉwd]
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• Multicultural-London-English: /ɪˈlyːd/
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• General-American: /ɪˈlud/
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• Canada: /ɪˈluːd/
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• /ɪˈlɪu̯d/ Wales, Ottawa Valley
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• UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• homophone: allude
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• homophone: illude (weak vowel merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: IH0 L UW1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin ēlūdō (“to evade, elude”), from ē- (“out of”, short form of ex-) + lūdō (“to play; to trick”).

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: избягвам (izbjagvam) — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Bulgarian: отбягвам (otbjagvam) — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Catalan: eludir — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Chinese Mandarin: 躲避 (duǒbì) — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Chinese Mandarin: 逃避 (táobì) — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Czech: vyhýbat se — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Czech: unikat — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Danish: flygte — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Danish: rømme — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Danish: undvige — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Danish: undgå — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Danish: stikke af — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• French: éluder — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• German: sich entziehen — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• German: entgehen — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• German: entkommen — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• German: umgehen — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• German: aus dem Weg gehen — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Italian: eludere — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Khmer: គេច (kɨc) — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Latin: ēlūdō — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Persian: اجتناب کردن — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Persian: تفره رفتن — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Portuguese: escapar — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Portuguese: esquivar — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Romanian: eluda — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Russian: ускользать (uskolʹzatʹ) — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Spanish: eludir — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Ukrainian: вислизати (vyslyzaty) — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Vietnamese: trốn chạy khỏi — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Vietnamese: né tránh — to evade, or escape from someone or something
• Czech: uniknout — to shake off a pursuer
• German: abschütteln — to shake off a pursuer
• German: sich absetzen von — to shake off a pursuer
• German: sich entziehen — to shake off a pursuer
• German: entkommen — to shake off a pursuer
• German: entgehen — to shake off a pursuer
• Czech: vymykat se (chápání) — to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to
• Czech: unikat — to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to
• German: sich jmds. Verständnis entziehen — to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to
• Russian: ускользать (uskolʹzatʹ) — to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to
• Catalan: estar oblidat — to escape so.'s memory
• Catalan: oblidar — to escape so.'s memory
• French: oublier — to escape so.'s memory
• German: nicht einfallen — to escape so.'s memory
• German: entfallen sein — to escape so.'s memory
• Italian: stare dimenticato — to escape so.'s memory
• Latin: dēdiscor — to escape so.'s memory
• Latin: dēdoceor — to escape so.'s memory
• Portuguese: estar esquecido — to escape so.'s memory
• Spanish: estar olvidado — to escape so.'s memory
• Spanish: olvidársele — to escape so.'s memory