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US
/iˈveɪd, ɪˈveɪd/
]
[ UK /ɪvˈeɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɪvˈeɪd/ ]
VERB
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use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
The con man always evades -
escape, either physically or mentally
The thief eluded the police
The event evades explanation
This difficult idea seems to evade her -
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
They tend to evade their responsibilities
he evaded the questions skillfully
He dodged the issue
she skirted the problem -
practice evasion
This man always hesitates and evades
How To Use evade In A Sentence
- The jury, which began deliberations last Friday after a six-week trial, had to decide whether Castroneves, his sister-manager Katiucia "Kati" Castroneves, 35, and Michigan sports attorney Alan R. Miller, 71, evaded U.S. taxes on more than $5.5 million income that the race driver earned between 1999-2004 from his arrangement with Penske Racing. Undefined
- If implemented, Straw's curfew will allow adults to evade taking responsibility for the welfare of future generations.
- As described above, it allows antigenic variation in its antigens to evade the host immune system.
- The policeman evaded all the difficult questions.
- You know you let your title lapse and now you're trying to evade the law. Rimrock Jones
- She evaded his grasp and left without another word, sashaying her hips tauntingly.
- Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
- And then, after all the bullshit, when he could prevaricate, elocute, circumlocute, and evade no more, he collapsed like a paper bag emptied of air. Stanton Peele: Public Figures Behaving Badly: Charlie Rangel, George Pataki, Sarah Palin
- Once primarily limited to intergang violence, the bloodshed of the city’s drug trade began spilling onto the streets of the border city in July 1997, when, at the age of forty-two, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died during a botched cosmetic surgery procedure in Mexico City, supposedly designed to change his appearance to evade law enforcement. THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
- He evaded the blow quite easily and caught Steve in the mouth with his left fist.
