Evade
[ɪ'veɪd] or [ɪ'ved]
Definition
(verb.) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; 'The con man always evades'.
(verb.) practice evasion; 'This man always hesitates and evades'.
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Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
(v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Elude, escape, escape from, steal away from, get away from (by artifice).[2]. Avoid, shun, decline.
v. n. Equivocate, shuffle, quibble, dodge, prevaricate, palter, cavil.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ELUDE]
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Definition
v.t. to escape or avoid artfully: to baffle.
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Examples
- I have known Mr. Pickwick now, as well as I recollect at this moment, nearly--' 'Pray, Mr. Winkle, do not evade the question. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But historians must stand to the questions a politician can evade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If you try to evade me, I'll stop you, if it's by the hair, and raise the very stones against you! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was but one way to evade or to check him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Don't evade it, John Harmon; don't evade it; think it out! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Don't evade the question. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Unable to answer this question in a breath, I evaded it by change of subject. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Children proverbially live in the present; that is not only a fact not to be evaded, but it is an excellence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I have tried once or twice, but she either evaded my questions or looked so distressed that I stopped. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This she evaded doing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Then Lord Decimus evaded and wandered away, while he was getting his man up to the mark. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I gained nothing by evading the troublesome questions which arose concerning women and children. Plato. The Republic.
- Dorothea is learning to read the characters simply, said Mr. Casaubon, evading the question. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was possessed by, and was the property of--him as I have made mention on,' said Riderhood, stupidly evading the actual mention of the name. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As to dead men, Tony, proceeds Mr. Guppy, evading this proposal, there have been dead men in most rooms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Again and again I have entreated Mrs. Pryor to say what she thinks of him, but she still evades returning a direct answer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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