elude.
To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill.
Meaning & usage
To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill.
To shake off (a pursuer); to give someone the slip.
To escape being understandable to; to be incomprehensible to.
I get algebra, but calculus eludes me.
To escape someone's memory, to slip someone's mind.
The solution of that brainteaser eludes me and the name of the author eludes my memory too.
Where this word comes from
From Latin ēlūdō (“to evade, elude”), from ē- (“out of”, short form of ex-) + lūdō (“to play; to trick”).
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