(~s, eluding, ~d)
1.
If something that you want ~s you, you fail to obtain it.
At 62, Brian found the celebrity and status that had ~d him for so long.
VERB: no passive, V n
2.
If you ~ someone or something, you avoid them or escape from them.
He ~d the police for 13 years.
VERB: V n
3.
If a fact or idea ~s you, you do not succeed in understanding it, realizing it, or remembering it.
The appropriate word ~d him.
= escape
VERB: no passive, V n