(eludes, eluding, eluded)
1.
If something that you want eludes you, you fail to obtain it.
At 62, Brian found the celebrity and status that had eluded him for so long.
VERB: no passive, V n
2.
If you elude someone or something, you avoid them or escape from them.
He eluded the police for 13 years.
VERB: V n
3.
If a fact or idea eludes you, you do not succeed in understanding it, realizing it, or remembering it.
The appropriate word eluded him.
= escape
VERB: no passive, V n