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elusion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun elusion has 1 sense
- elusion(n = noun.act) eluding, slip - the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning); Array is a kind of evasion
Derived form verb elude1
CIDE DICTIONARY
elusion, n. [LL. elusio, fr. L. eludere, elusum. See Elude.].
Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
elusion
avoidance, avoiding reaction, buck-passing, circumvention, defense mechanism, dodge, duck, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, eschewal, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, foiling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, frustration, getting around, getting round, jink, neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, outguessing, outmaneuvering, outwitting, passing the buck, prevention, refraining, runaround, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, zigzagROGET THESAURUS
elusion
Avoidance
N avoidance, abstention, abstinence, for bearance, refraining, inaction, neutrality, avoidance, evasion, elusion, seclusion, avolation, flight, escape, retreat, recoil, departure, rejection, shirker, truant, fugitive, refugee, runaway, runagate, maroon, unsought, unattempted, avoiding, neutral, shy of, elusive, evasive, fugitive, runaway, shy, wild, Adj, lest, in order to avoid, Int, forbear!, keep off, hands off!, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
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