dodge vs elude

dodge

verb
  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

elude

verb
  • To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill. 

  • To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to. 

  • To escape someone's memory, to slip someone's mind. 

  • To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip. 

How often have the words dodge and elude occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )