elude

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To escape from or avoid someone or something, often by being clever or quick.

   The thief eluded the police for weeks.

2. 2
   verb

   To be impossible for someone to achieve, understand, or remember.

   The solution to the puzzle continues to elude me.

From Latin ēlūdō (“to evade, elude”), from ē- (“out of”, short form of ex-) + lūdō (“to play; to trick”).

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