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- Dictionarye·vade/əˈvād/
verb
- 1. escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery: "friends helped him to evade capture for a time" Similar Opposite
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The meaning of EVADE is to slip away. How to use evade in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Evade.
EVADE definition: 1. to avoid or escape from someone or something: 2. to intentionally not talk about something or…. Learn more.
Evade definition: to escape from by trickery or cleverness. See examples of EVADE used in a sentence.
When you evade something, you escape it. You could evade a police chase by slipping into a secret alley, or you could evade your mother's questions about the missing cookies by slipping into another topic.
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 ]
EVADE meaning: 1. to avoid or escape from someone or something: 2. to intentionally not talk about something or…. Learn more.
1. To escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or deceit: managed to evade their pursuers; went underground in order to evade arrest. 2. a. To avoid complying with or fulfilling: evade the draft; evaded any legal responsibility. b. To fail to make payment of (taxes). 3.
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. 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.
