elude
verb (used with object)
to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade.
am eluding
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present progressiveof elude (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am a proprietor of the Comic Paper down below, and am eluding the man who comes every day to tell me how such a paper should be conducted.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various
