Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or deceit.
- intransitive verb To avoid complying with or fulfilling.
- intransitive verb To fail to make payment of (taxes).
- intransitive verb To avoid giving a direct answer to.
- intransitive verb To be beyond the memory or understanding of.
- intransitive verb To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping something.
- intransitive verb To avoid complying with or fulfilling a requirement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with
from . - transitive verb To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- transitive verb To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
get away from byartifice ; toavoid bydexterity ,subterfuge , address, or ingenuity; toelude ; toescape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. - verb To
escape ; toslip away ; — sometimes with from. - verb To
attempt to escape; to practiceartifice orsophistry , for the purpose of eluding.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb escape, either physically or mentally
- verb practice evasion
- verb use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- verb avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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.
The Guardian World News Sam Jones 2012
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You again evade all the arguments I laid on the table in order to pyschologize about motives.
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The truth that men seek there to evade is that this small planet cannot survive a nuclear exchange ...
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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.
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Note I said avoid, (legal), not evade, which is not.
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Note I said avoid, (legal), not evade, which is not.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
bilby commented on the word evade
FFS this is the standard of modern Australian journalism:
"A man and a woman have been arrested after they tried to run from police, the second evade incident in two days."
- Two Arrested After Police Evade, Hobart Mercury, 13/4/2018.
April 12, 2018