Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To escape or avoid by cleverness or deceit: evade arrest.
- v. To avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing: evade responsibility. See Synonyms at escape.
- v. To fail to make payment of (taxes).
- v. To avoid giving a direct answer to.
- v. To baffle or elude: The accident evades explanation.
- v. To practice evasion.
- v. To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To avoid by effort or contrivance; escape from or elude in any way, as by dexterity, artifice, stratagem, or address; slip away from; get out of the way of: as, to evade a blow; to evade pursuers.
- To escape the reach or comprehension of; baffle or foil: as, a mystery that evades inquiry.
- To escape; slip away: with from.
- To practise evasion; use elusive methods.
Wiktionary
- v. 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. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- v. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly.
- v. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with
from . - v. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
WordNet 3.0
- v. escape, either physically or mentally
- v. practice evasion
- v. use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Etymologies
- From Latin ēvādō ("I pass or go over; flee"), from ē ("out of, from") + vādō ("I go; walk"): compare French évader. See wade. (Wiktionary)
- French évader, from Latin ēvādere : ē-, ex-, ex- + vādere, to go. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He told the court: "I did not know what the word evade means," adding that over six years his companies paid a total of £55m in taxes.”
“You again evade all the arguments I laid on the table in order to pyschologize about motives.”
“The truth that men seek there to evade is that this small planet cannot survive a nuclear exchange ...”
“Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen.”
“Note I said avoid, (legal), not evade, which is not.”
“The report from Harkin's office alleges that dollars from military benefits allow for-profit schools to "evade" a federal rule that no more than 90 percent of their revenues come from federal Title IV money, such as Pell Grants.”
The Huffington Post: For-Profit Colleges Cashing In On Veterans
“Since then, we have managed to "evade" parts of our Constitution, incarcerate many without due process in that our nation has been sold the threat of Terrorism as we were sold on the threat of Communism over fifty years ago.”
“Ah yes, they didn't want to fix the problem, and get us our money back, because then the Democrats would "evade" responsibility for George Bush having given AIG the money in the first place last September.”
“SURWEICKI: Well, the fascinating thing is that he's somehow been able to kind of evade a lot of the blame for this as chairman and, you know, he's sort of above the big picture.”
“An agency proceeding "to assess the appropriate response to a significant court case hardly constitutes an effort to 'evade' the Comcast decision," Feld wrote.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘evade’.
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Artistic words
Good for poetry, or just artistic on their own.
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Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
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big book gre
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
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Prep my Lang
Collection of my wordnik word search
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practice 2
100 words
momentous, domicile, adroit, ingenious, dexterous, genius, brevity, decorum, propriety, dignity, err, blunder and 91 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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vocabs
to learn
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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MsHalston's Words
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pop ups
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words that go around
words that form a hollow, that stop for something, that slip around or between, that describe a space, that require a space, words that euphemize, words that navigate an absence.
lacuna, coracle, vena cava, caesura, escogitare, peripatetic, encircled, embrace, delineate, billow, hollowed, slip and 12 more...
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b, e, d, g, p and t
decidedly, drench, defeat, delirium, deviant, distance, dimension, dust, dope, dissolve, dissipate, distortion and 63 more...
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utility
coherent, actual, implement, avert, subtle, invest, combine, assist, establish, forth, consistent, resurgence and 41 more...
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