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eluct

eluct verb: to avoid or escape.

Verb

eluct (third-person singular simple present elucts, present participle elucting, simple past and past participle elucted)

  1. (humorous, often, rare) To avoid or escape.

Forms of eluct

third-person singular presentelucts
present participleelucting
past participleelucted
pastelucted

Origin of eluct

Back-formation from ineluctable.

Questions about eluct

What does eluct mean?
Eluct means to avoid or escape.
What part of speech is eluct?
Eluct is a verb.
What is the past tense of eluct?
The past tense of eluct is elucted.

Words near eluct in the dictionary

  1. elucidatively
  2. elucidator
  3. elucidatorily
  4. elucidators
  5. elucidatory
  6. eluct
  7. eluctability
  8. eluctable
  9. eluctableness
  10. eluctation
  11. eluctations

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