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Elude vs Flee - What's the difference?

elude | flee | Synonyms |

In transitive terms the difference between elude and flee

is that elude is to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to while flee is to escape from.

elude

English

Verb

(elud)
  • 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. § 26.
  • 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.
  • To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Podolski gave Walcott a chance to further embellish Arsenal's first-half performance when he eluded James Perch and slipped the ball through to the striker.}}
  • To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.
  • flee

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To run away; to escape.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • (label) To escape from.
  • (label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
  • Anagrams

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