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e·vade

Audio Help [i-veyd] Pronunciation Key verb, e·vad·ed, e·vad·ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to escape from by trickery or cleverness: to evade one's pursuers.

2.	to get around by trickery: to evade rules.

3.	to avoid doing or fulfilling: to evade an obligation.

4.	to avoid answering directly: to evade a question.

5.	to elude; escape: The solution evaded him.

–verb (used without object)

6.	to practice evasion.

7.	to elude or get away from someone or something by craft or slyness; escape.

[Origin: 1505–15; < L évādere to pass over, go out, equiv. to é- e- + vādere to go, walk

]

—Related forms

e·vad·a·ble, e·vad·i·ble, adjective

e·vad·er, noun

e·vad·ing·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 1. avoid, dodge. See escape. 6. prevaricate, equivocate, fence.

—Antonyms 1. face, confront.

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e·vade Audio Help   (ĭ-vād') Pronunciation Key
v.   e·vad·ed, e·vad·ing, e·vades

v.   tr.

To escape or avoid by cleverness or deceit: evade arrest.
1. To avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing: evade responsibility. See Synonyms at escape.
2. To fail to make payment of (taxes).
To avoid giving a direct answer to.
To baffle or elude: The accident evades explanation.

v. intr.

To practice evasion.
To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping.

[French évader, from Latin ēvādere : ē-, ex-, ex- + vādere, to go.]

e·vad'a·ble, e·vad'i·ble adj., e·vad'er n.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
evade

1513, from M.Fr. evader, from L. evadere "to escape, get away," from ex- "away" + vadere "to go, walk" (see vamoose).

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evade
verb
1.	avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
2.	escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" [syn: elude]
3.	practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"
4.	use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
evade [iˈveid] verb

to escape or avoid by eg trickery or skill

Arabic:	يَتَهَرَّب من، يَتَمَلَّص من
Chinese (Simplified):	逃避
Chinese (Traditional):	逃避
Czech:	vyhnout se
Danish:	undslippe; undgå
Dutch:	ontwijken
Estonian:	kõrvale põiklema
Finnish:	kiertää
French:	éviter
German:	entrinnen
Greek:	αποφεύγω, ξεφεύγω
Hungarian:	kitér (vmi elől)
Icelandic:	sneiða hjá, komast hjá
Indonesian:	mengelak
Italian:	evitare

Japanese:	うまく避ける
Korean:	교묘히 피하다
Latvian:	izvairīties; izlocīties
Lithuanian:	išvengti, išsisukti
Norwegian:	unngå, unnvike, lure seg unna
Polish:	unikać
Portuguese (Brazil):	evadir
Portuguese (Portugal):	evitar, *evadir
Romanian:	a evita
Russian:	уклоняться
Slovak:	vyhnúť sa
Slovenian:	izogniti se
Spanish:	evadir
Swedish:	undvika, undgå
Turkish:	kaç(ın)mak

See also: evasive

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: evade
Pronunciation: i-'vAd
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: evad·ed; evad·ing
1 : to unlawfully failto pay (taxes) through fraudulent or deceptive means —compare AVOID
2 : to avoid answering directly<trying to evade the question>

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Evade

E*vade"\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evaded; p. pr. & vb. n.. Evading.] [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'['e]vader. See Wade.] 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.

The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. --Trench.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Evade

E*vade"\, v. t. 1. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. "Evading from perils." --Bacon.

Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. --Milton.

2. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways. --South.

Syn: To equivocate; shuffle. See Prevaricate.

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