evaded

evade (ɪˈveɪd)

—vb
1.	to get away from or avoid (imprisonment, captors, etc); escape
2.	to get around, shirk, or dodge (the law, a duty, etc)
3.	(also intr) to avoid answering (a question)

[C16: from French évader, from Latin ēvādere to go forth, from vādere to go]

e'vadable

—*adj*

e'vader

—n

e'vadingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

evade

1510s, from M.Fr. evader, from L. evadere "to escape, get away," from ex- "away" + vadere "to go, walk" (see vamoose). Related: Evaded; evading

Example sentences

But all of the constraints can be evaded by considering more complicated models.

Yet a feeling remains that the fine minds have evaded the really difficult

question.

The defendants evaded the income taxes due on all of these and other benefits.

These restrictions he evaded with remarkable success.

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Related Words

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inevitable perpetual check

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"Ratcliffe was a great statesman. The smoothness of his manipulation was marvelous. No other man in politics, indeed no other man who had ever been in politics in this country, could—his admirers said—have brought together so many hostile interests and made so fantastic a combination. Some men went so far as to maintain that he would "rope in the President himself before the old man had time to swap knives with him." The beauty of his work consisted in the skill with which he evaded questions of principle. As he wisely said, the issue now involved was not one of principle but of power."

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