Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep(verb)

   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. elude, evade, bilk(verb)

   escape, either physically or mentally

   "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"

3. evade(verb)

   practice evasion

   "This man always hesitates and evades"

4. evade(verb)

   use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

   "The con man always evades"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. evade(Verb)

   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. u2014 Richard Chenevix Trench.

2. evade(Verb)

   To escape; to slip away; u2014 sometimes with from.

3. evade(Verb)

   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. u2014 Robert South.

Origin: From evado, from e + vado: compare French évader. See wade.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Evade(verb)

   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. Evade(verb)

   to escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from

3. Evade(verb)

   to attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding

Origin: [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'vader. See Wade.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Evade

   e-vād′, v.t. to escape or avoid artfully: to baffle. [L. evadĕre—e, out, vadĕre, to go.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of evade in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of evade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. T. S. Elliot:

   You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

2. Fritz Kunkel:

   To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

3. William Feather:

   A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

4. Kenneth Gross:

   If this was used as a mechanism to evade disclosure, that would be a different story.

5. Gloria Allred:

   He may try to escape. He's going to evade, but we're going to have a lot of questions.

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