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: --
Although his men were weakened by defections, disease, and attacks by colonial troops, they eventually eluded their pursuers and dispersed into the mountainous terrain.
But in the long run there may be a convergence that has eluded the organisations over the last half-century.
However, despite the strong evidence of a genetic factor, specific genetic markers and the neurobiological expression of putative genetic mechanisms have eluded researchers.
Satisfactorily combining the doing and undergoing of music has eluded music educational thinkers.
Until now, however, this extremely valuable collection of stories has eluded the attention of scholars.
Through such ordinary deeds were grand colonizing designs eluded.
If so, it's eluded us for twenty-five years now.
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.
