elude
verb
the murderer managed to elude the police for several weeks:
evade, avoid, get away from, dodge, flee, escape (from), run (away) from;
lose, duck, shake off, give the slip to, slip away from, throw off the scent;
informal slip through someone's fingers, slip through the net;
archaic circumvent, bilk.
▷antonyms be caught by.
elude Oxford Dictionary of English