0 past simple and past participle of elude
1 If something that you want eludes you, you do not succeed in achieving it:
2 to not be caught by someone:
3 If a piece of information eludes you, you cannot remember it:
Since its description, the lifecycle of this protozoan parasite has eluded discovery.
This is an important goal that has eluded others.
This understanding of the city as a universally accommodating and nurturing eco-system that ultimately eluded comprehension was far from being a common one.
He shared his father's desperation, the desperation of a small man who watched big producers monopolize the state patents and premiums that eluded him.
He lived on until 1706 but, in contrast to his good fortune before 1678, further promotion eluded him.
The bibliography of each retrieved article was examined to identify references that might have eluded the computer-based search.
Being an optimal tool, the nonmodal analysis reveals the key phenomena that are eluded in the framework of the modal approach.
However, although one of the most heritable neuropsychiatric syndromes, autism has so far eluded attempts to discover its genetic origins in the majority of cases.
