Definitions for evade
ɪˈveɪdevade

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb

   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, bilkverb

   escape, either physically or mentally

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

3. evadeverb

   practice evasion

   "This man always hesitates and evades"

4. evadeverb

   use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

   "The con man always evades"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. evadeverb

   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. Richard Chenevix Trench.

2. evadeverb

   To escape; to slip away; sometimes with from.

3. evadeverb

   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. Robert South.

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To EVADEverb

   Etymology: evado, Latin.

   1. To elude; to escape by artifice or stratagem.

   In this point charge him home, that he affects
   Tyrannick power: if he evade us there,
   Inforce him with his envy to the people. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   Or, if thou covet death, as utmost end
   Of misery, so thinking to evade
   The penalty pronounc’d, doubt not but God
   Hath wiselier arm’d his vengeful ire, than so
   To be forestall’d. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. x. l. 1021.

   He might evade the accomplishment of these afflictions he now gradually endureth. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i.

   2. To avoid; to decline by subterfuge.

   Our question thou evad’st; how did’st thou dare
   To break hell bounds? John Dryden, State of Innocence.

   3. To escape or elude by sophistry.

   My argument evidently overthrows all that he brings to evade the testimonies of the fathers. Edward Stillingfleet.

   4. To escape as imperceptible, or unconquerable, as too great or too subtle to be seized or subdued.

   We have seen how a contingent event baffles man’s knowledge, and evades his power. Robert South, Sermons.

2. To Evadeverb

   1. To escape; to slip away.

   His wisdom, by often evading from perils, was turned rather into a dexterity to deliver himself from dangers, than into a providence to prevent. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   2. To practise sophistry or evasions.

   Unarm’d they might
   Have easily, as spirits, evaded swift
   By quick contraction, or remove. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   The ministers of God are not to evade or take refuge in any of these two forementioned ways. Robert South, Sermons.

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1. evade

   To evade is to deliberately avoid or escape from something, often by using skill, cleverness, or deceit. This can refer to evading a physical threat or danger, a responsibility or obligation, a question, or even a law or regulation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Evadeverb

   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. Evadeverb

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

3. Evadeverb

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

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

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Evade

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

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1. eaved

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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

Examples of evade in a Sentence

1. Ramon Lorenzo Redondo:

   Some of these lineages that have already evolved to evade, at least, natural immunity. Still, they are not able to evade a vaccine - produced immunity.

2. T. S. Elliot:

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

3. Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966:

   The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

4. Fritz Kunkel:

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

5. Philip Brooks:

   PCH is a straight road. There's no place to go to evade, being a celebrity, he's often followed by the paparazzi and he's aware of that. He was on his way home, and they happen to know his route.

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