evade

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" [syn: hedge, fudge, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]

2 escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" [syn: elude, bilk]

3 practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"

4 use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con mane always evades"

English

Etymology

From Latin evadere, evasum, e + vadere: compare French s'évader. See wade

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Synonyms

• equivocate
• shuffle

Derived terms

• evadible
• evasible
• evasion
• evasive

Translations

• Spanish: burlar, eludir

See also

• prevaricate

Italian

Verb

evade

1. Form of Third-person singular present tense, evadere

Evasion is the act of avoiding something.

It may refer to:

• Evasion (law), to avoid government mandate through specious means (tax evasion, for example)
• Evasion (book), a zine-turned-book published by CrimethInc., an anarchist group
• Evasion (Objectivism), refusal to think on or accept the consequences of a line of thought
• Evasion (Ethics)
• Citroën Evasion, a car

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