noun evade Escape or avoid, esp. by cleverness or trickery. 1
verb evade To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. 0
verb evade If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do. 0
verb evade To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. 0
verb evade If you evade a question or a topic, you avoid talking about it or dealing with it. 0
verb evade To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. 0
verb evade If you evade someone or something, you move so that you can avoid meeting them or avoid being touched or hit. 0
verb evade If something such as success, glory, or love evades you, you do not manage to have it. 0
verb evade to get away from or avoid (imprisonment, captors, etc); escape 0
verb evade to get around, shirk, or dodge (the law, a duty, etc) 0
verb evade to avoid answering (a question) 0
intransitive verb evade to escape; get away 0
intransitive verb evade to be deceitful or clever in avoiding or escaping something; use evasion 0
verb transitive evade to avoid or escape from by deceit or cleverness; elude 0
verb transitive evade to avoid doing or answering directly; get around; get out of 0
