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Eluding vs Elusive - What's the difference?

eluding | elusive |

As a verb eluding

is present participle of elude.

As an adjective elusive is

evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.

eluding

English

Verb

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    elusive

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
    • The elusive criminal was arrested
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    • , year=1910 , author=Jack London , title=Lost Face , chapter=6 citation , passage=Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.}}
  • Rarely seen.
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  • Difficult to describe.
    • A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive (Robbin's pathology, 8th ed)

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