eluding

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

By nimble turn, by rapid bound He shunned the shafts that rained around, Eluding, as in air he rose, The rushing chariots of his foes. — The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse, Valmiki
Mr. Casaubon had taken a cruelly effective means of hindering her: even with indignation against him in her heart, any act that seemed a triumphant eluding of his purpose revolted her. — Middlemarch, George Eliot
I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the eluding and ungraspable objects that ever I tried to get mind or hands on, that was the chief. — Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain

slip, elusion

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