What's the difference between avoid and elude?

Avoid


Definition:

  • (a.) To empty.
  • (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
  • (a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
  • (a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
  • (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
  • (a.) To get rid of.
  • (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
  • (v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.
  • (v. i.) To become void or vacant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
  • (2) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
  • (3) Sample processing appears effective in avoiding spontaneous oxalogenesis.
  • (4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (5) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (6) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (7) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (8) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (9) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
  • (10) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
  • (11) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
  • (12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (13) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
  • (14) This method avoids disturbance of the cellular metabolism.
  • (15) We determined to further clarify the mechanism of this transmural coronary "steal" employing intracoronary DP administration, thereby avoiding systemic hypotension.
  • (16) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
  • (17) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
  • (18) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
  • (19) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
  • (20) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.

Elude


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bill allows Obama to claim another major piece of legislation to put alongside the economic stimulus bill passed last year, which stands comparison with Roosevelt's New Deal, and the healthcare bill earlier this year, which achieved a goal that had eluded previous presidents.
  • (2) The decision prompted Human Rights Watch to warn that he should not be allowed "to elude serious legal proceedings against him".
  • (3) Whether these two sera specifically affect sperm-zona pellucida binding or non-specifically affect the normal progression of capacitation remains to be eludicated.
  • (4) When Kristine Minde eluded Claire Rafferty at the far post she was well placed to meet Solveig Gulbrandsen’s long diagonal ball.
  • (5) This was a distinction that eluded the broadcaster Alan Jones on Wednesday when he was accused by an Abbott government minister of running a “racist” scare campaign about foreign ownership of Australian farmland.
  • (6) Such anomalous conditions occurring either alone or in combination elude diagnosis and pose problems for management.
  • (7) It is suggested that all patients suffering from the K-T syndrome should be examined by Doppler ultrasound in the hope that microfistulas which elude radiodiagnostic techniques might be detected and treated surgically.
  • (8) This disease eludes all known forms of therapy and results in edentulousness after only a few years.
  • (9) The phenomenon of antigenic shifts may make it possible for the bacteria to elude antibodies.
  • (10) The GABA-receptor at the Ascaris muscle cell which mediates a membrane hyperpolarization and muscle relaxation has eluded classification.
  • (11) Finally, the article demonstrates practical and efficient methods of cooperation between neurologists and the referring chiropractic physician that has eluded these professions for almost a century.
  • (12) It was the year when we saw predators for who they really are, even if justice eludes them.
  • (13) The pros and cons of the various B-scan modes are discussed, and the preferences of the combination of the linear scan and the arc scan is eludicated with experimental results.
  • (14) Could you have imagined at the start of your career that a league title would elude you?
  • (15) 9.32pm GMT 79 mins: A long Houston ball eludes Driver.
  • (16) The one major medal Pirlo lacks for club or country has eluded him.
  • (17) Nonetheless, she has dealt with these online critics with the kind of grace that eludes people older and allegedly more rational than her (well, HELLO there, Richard Dawkins!)
  • (18) Even classic tragedy on the Oscar Wilde scale eluded him.
  • (19) His inswinging ball eluded Winston Reid at the front post but found Antonio, whose stooping header came off his marker Deeney and past the bewildered Heurelho Gomes.
  • (20) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.