"elude" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use "elude" when you want to say that someone or something is avoiding capture or an attempt to achieve something. Example sentence: The robber eluded the police officers and escaped.
But the winning formula continues to elude the Hibs manager, who has tasted victory in just two out of 15 games since being brought in to an arrest a slump that stretches back almost a year.
Kermorgant lined up the free-kick and struck a right-footed shot that beat the wall with a prefect arc to elude the clutches of David Stockdale and Bournemouth were on their way to another victory in this glorious season.
But we believe that future office will elude us until we establish a distinctive radical reputation.
Carroll's game is not entirely built on his ability to elude and out-jump defenders but it is a considerable part of his artillery and Steven Gerrard's delivery from the right was impeccable, just as it had been for Joleon Lescott's goal against France.
But more complicated organs elude them.
He managed, for instance, to elude police in Belize who wanted to question him regarding a neighbour's murder.
The precious mix of inexhaustible energy and authoritative calm seems to elude both the president and his prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault. Jean-Marc Ayrault
But it didn't and doesn't go blowing us up just to scare us witless for reasons that completely elude us.
A six-year-old boy drowned in October after a suspected smuggler's boat capsized while trying to elude the Coast Guard.
Unlike the familiar three of length, breadth and height, these extra dimensions are curled up so tightly that they elude detection (though scientists are trying to prise them open in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva).
This helps them elude customers as well as assassins.
