evade
Americanverb (used with object)
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to escape from by trickery or cleverness.
to evade one's pursuers.
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to get around by trickery.
to evade rules.
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to avoid doing or fulfilling.
to evade an obligation.
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to avoid answering directly.
to evade a question.
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The solution evaded him.
verb (used without object)
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to avoid doing or fulfilling something.
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to elude or get away from someone or something by craft or slyness; escape.
verb
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to get away from or avoid (imprisonment, captors, etc); escape
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to get around, shirk, or dodge (the law, a duty, etc)
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(also intr) to avoid answering (a question)
Related Words
See escape.
Other Word Forms
- evadable adjective
- evader noun
- evadible adjective
- evadingly adverb
- nonevadable adjective
- nonevadible adjective
- nonevading adjective
- nonevadingly adverb
- preevade verb (used with object)
- unevadable adjective
- unevaded adjective
- unevadible adjective
- unevading adjective
Etymology
Origin of evade
First recorded in 1505–15; from Latin ēvādere “to pass over, go out,” equivalent to ē- “out of, from” + vādere “to go, walk” e- 1
Example Sentences
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It added it often sees “instances of groups or individuals taking on new tactics to avoid detection and evade our policies and enforcement.”
Turnitin said essay mills were still popular because of a growing demand for services that evade AI detection - preying on students' fear of being caught.
From BBC
He continually evaded expectations and the industry’s attempts to trap him in a box.
From Los Angeles Times
But after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, it has turned to a more opaque network of middlemen to evade scrutiny.
But so far none of this appears to have changed much Kremlin thinking, not least because businesses have found ways of evading restrictions, such as transporting oil on unregistered ghost ships.
From BBC
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