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1. Escape, either physically or mentally
   "The thief eluded the police"
   - evade, bilk
    
2. Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
   "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
   - escape
    
3. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
   - hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep, finesse

Sounds like: illude, allude

Derived forms: eluded, eluding, eludes

See also: elusion, elusive

Type of: amaze, avoid, baffle, beat, bewilder, break loose, dumbfound, escape, flummox, get, get away, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex