(v.t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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