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v. To evade or escape from, as by daring, cleverness, or skill: The suspect continues to elude the police.

v. To escape the understanding or grasp of: a name that has always eluded me; a metaphor that eluded them. See Synonyms at escape.

v. To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.

v. To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.

v. To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.

v. To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle

To avoid by artifice, stratagem, deceit, or dexterity; escape; evade: as, to elude pursuit; to elude a blow or stroke.

To remain unseen, undiscovered, or unexplained, by; baffle the inquiry or scrutiny of: as, secrets that elude the keenest search.

Synonyms To shun, flee, shirk, dodge, baffle, foil, frustrate.

v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

v. be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

v. escape, either physically or mentally

"And I seem to remember several books with Conan Doyle as the detective though the titles elude me."

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allude    delude    illude   

flee    avoid    evade    foil    mock    eschew    frustrate    baffle    shun    escape   

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