All elude synonyms

verb elude

• flee — to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
• get away — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• foil — to cover or back with foil.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• outrun — to run faster or farther than.
• outwit — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
• puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
• shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
• stall — a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• bilk — To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
• duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
• fly — to move through the air using wings.
• shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
• shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
• shy — bashful; retiring.
• stump — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
• beat around the bush — to talk around a subject without getting to the point
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
• pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
• pass up — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• run around — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
• steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.