elude

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To evade or escape from, as by daring, cleverness, or skill: synonym: evade.
• transitive verb To escape the memory or understanding of.
• transitive verb To be unnattained by.

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
• verb transitive To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
• verb transitive To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
• verb be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
• verb escape, either physically or mentally