Elapse vs Elude - What's the difference?
elapse | elude |
(of time) To pass or move by.
To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 26.
To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
* {{quote-news
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To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.
As verbs the difference between elapse and elude
is that elapse is to pass or move by while elude is to evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.elapse
English
Verb
(elaps)- He allowed a month to elapse before beginning the work.
- Several days elapsed before they met again.
Anagrams
* * ----elude
English
Verb
(elud)- Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
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