eluded

Definitions

Evaded or escaped from a danger, enemy, or pursuer, typically in a skillful or cunning way.

Failed to be grasped, remembered, or understood by someone.

Examples

The solution to the complex math problem eluded me for several hours.

The suspect eluded the police by disappearing into the crowded subway station.

Synonyms

evaded dodged escaped avoided baffled shunned outwitted

Antonyms

confronted encountered faced captured caught attained understood