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Principal Translations
Inglés		Español
elusive adj	(avoiding capture)	escurridizo/a adj
		huidizo/a adj
	Police are trying to track down the elusive criminal, who has so far avoided all their attempts to capture him.
	La policía está tratando de rastrear al escurridizo delincuente, que hasta el momento había esquivado todos los intentos de atraparlo.
elusive adj	(thing, idea: hard to grasp)	vago/a adj
		impreciso/a adj
	The student struggled to understand the elusive concepts in the poetry.
	Al estudiante le costaba entender los vagos conceptos de la poesía.
elusive adj	(avoids answering)	evasivo/a adj
		esquivo/a adj
	The elusive politician didn't give the interviewer any straight answers.
	El evasivo político no le dio ninguna respuesta clara al entrevistador.

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'elusive' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:

In the English description:

hard to find - slippery as an eel - will-o'-the-wisp

Spanish:

elusivo - huido - serpiente - escurridizo - esquivo - huidizo

Synonyms: evasive, slippery, shifty, hard to find, hard to see, more...

Collocations: an elusive [criminal, suspect], has [been, remained] elusive for [years], elusive and difficult to [find, see], more...

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