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- Dictionaryevade/ɪˈveɪd/
verb
- 1. escape or avoid (someone or something), especially by guile or trickery: "friends helped him to evade capture for a time" Similar Opposite
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EVADE definition: 1. to avoid or escape from someone or something: 2. to intentionally not talk about something or…. Learn more.
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) “They tend to evade their responsibilities”. “he evaded the questions skillfully”. synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt. see more.
to avoid or escape from someone or something: The police have assured the public that the escaped prisoners will not evade recapture for long. She leaned forward to kiss him but he evaded her by pretending to sneeze. An Olympic gold medal is the only thing that has evaded her in her remarkable career.
If you evade someone or something, you move so that you can avoid meeting them or avoid being touched or hit. Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears. [ VERB noun ]
The meaning of EVADE is to slip away. How to use evade in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Evade.
evade (doing) something to find a way of not doing something, especially something that legally or morally you should do. The defendant had tried to evade payment of taxes. She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour. He never sought to evade his responsibilities.
Evade definition: to escape from by trickery or cleverness. See examples of EVADE used in a sentence.
evade. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English e‧vade /ɪˈveɪd/ verb [ transitive] 1 not talk about something to avoid talking about something, especially because you are trying to hide something → evasion I could tell that he was trying to evade the issue. The minister evaded the question. 2 not do something to not do or deal ...
EVADE definition: 1. to avoid something or someone, especially in a dishonest way: 2. to intentionally not talk…. Learn more.
Definition of evade verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
