Verb

(elud)

To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 26.

Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.

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To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.

Verb

(puzzl)

(label) To perplex (someone).

* (Henry More) (1614-1687)

A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others, if they be not thoroughpaced speculators in those great theories.

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.

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To make intricate; to entangle.

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, / Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.

* (William Cowper) (1731-1800)

They disentangle from the puzzled skein.