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1. The act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
   - slip, elusion

1. Escape, either physically or mentally
   "The thief eluded the police";
   - evade, bilk [archaic]
    
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)
   "They tend to elude their responsibilities";
   - hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, skirt, dodge, duck [informal], sidestep, finesse, circumnavigate

Sounds like: eluded, illuded, alludedg, illuding, alludin

Type of: avoid, baffle, beat, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, break loose, confound, confuse, discombobulate [informal], dumbfound, escape, evasion, flummox, fox, fuddle, get, get away, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, throw, vex