elude

Verb

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • He dodged the issue
    
  • she skirted the problem
    
  • They tend to evade their responsibilities
    
  • he evaded the questions skillfully
    

• be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
  • What you are seeing in him eludes me
    

• escape, either physically or mentally
  • The thief eluded the police
    
  • This difficult idea seems to evade her
    
  • The event evades explanation
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  escape , evade , bilk