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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Wine later issued a statement on Facebook saying that he had managed to evade a night-time raid by security forces and was in hiding.
From BBC
Experts believe the strain has mutated to “more likely evade” immunity from the current vaccine.
From Los Angeles Times
It alleged she used her personal phone to take photographs of confidential information on her Palantir computer in “an obvious effort to evade Palantir’s data system.”
To evade sanctions on Iran, the oil is often sent by ship-to-ship transfer and paid for with infrastructure financing that avoids traditional banking systems, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam title to evade the 24-year-old, who has made the semi-finals twice but never gone further.
From Barron's
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