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All eluded synonyms

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verb eluded

  • fled — simple past tense and past participle of flee.
  • dodged — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
  • avoided — to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger.
  • baffled — lacking in understanding
  • confounded — bewildered; confused
  • foiled — ornamented with foils, as a gable, spandrel, or balustrade.
  • frustrated — Obsolete. frustrated.
  • outran — simple past tense of outrun.
  • outwitted — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
  • puzzled — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
  • shunned — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
  • stalled — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
  • bilked — to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars.
  • circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • ditched — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
  • doubled — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • ducked — to stoop or bend suddenly; bob.
  • flew — a simple past tense of fly1 .
  • shirked — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
  • shied — simple past tense and past participle of shy2 .
  • stumped — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
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