Definitions of evade [ɪˈveɪd]

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Definition of 'evade'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) evade
to escape or avoid by speed or agility:
to evade one's pursuers.

2.  evade
to get around by cleverness or trickery:
to evade rules; to evade paying taxes.

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

4.  evade
to avoid answering directly:
She evaded our questions by changing the subject.

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

6. (v.i.) evade
to practice evasion.

7.  evade
to elude or get away by craft or slyness; escape.

Etymology: (1505–15; < L ēvādere to pass over, go out)

Definition of 'evade'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
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. (verb) elude, evade, bilk
escape, either physically or mentally
"The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"

3. (verb) evade
practice evasion
"This man always hesitates and evades"

4. (verb) evade
use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
"The con man always evades"

Definition of 'evade'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) evade
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

2. (verb) evade
to escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from

3. (verb) evade
to attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding

Translation of 'evade'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to escape or avoid by eg trickery or skill.
Afrikaans: ontwyk	Arabic: يَتَهَرَّب من، يَتَمَلَّص	Bulgarian: отбягвам
Brazilian: evadir	Czech: vyhnout se	German: entrinnen
Danish: undslippe; undgå	Greek: αποφεύγω, ξεφεύγω	Spanish: evadir
Estonian: kõrvale põiklema	Farsi: با زرنگی از زیر چیزی در ر	Finnish: väistää
French: éviter	Hebrew: לְהִתחַמֵק	Hindi: टालमटोल करना, टालना
Croatian: izbjeći, umaknuti	Hungarian: kitér (vmi elől)	Indonesian: mengelak
Icelandic: sneiða hjá, komast hjá	Italian: evitare	Japanese: うまく避ける
Korean: 회피하다	Lithuanian: išvengti, išsisukti	Latvian: izvairīties; izlocīties
Malay: mengelak	Dutch: ontwijken	Norwegian: unngå, unnvike, lure seg
Polish: unikać	Persian: با زرنگی از زیر چیزی در ر	Pashto: تښتېدل، تېښته كول (له)، (
Portuguese: evitar/evadir	Romanian: a evita	Russian: уклоняться
Slovak: vyhnúť sa	Slovenian: izogniti se	Serbian: izbegavati
Swedish: undvika, undgå	Thai: หลบเลี่ยง	Turkish: kaç(ın)mak
Taiwanese: 逃避	Ukrainian: уникати, ухилятися	Urdu: بچ نکلنا
Vietnamese: tránh khỏi	Chinese: 逃避
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