Verb

• S: (v) bilk (cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money)
• S: (v) thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk (hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of) "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
• S: (v) bilk (evade payment to) "He bilked his creditors"
• S: (v) elude, evade, bilk (escape, either physically or mentally) "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (adj) elusive [Related to: elude] (skillful at eluding capture) "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
• W: (n) elusion [Related to: elude] (the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning))
• W: (n) eluding [Related to: elude] (the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning))
• W: (n) evasion [Related to: evade] (the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver)
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