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EVADE
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”
evade
(verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; “The con man always evades”
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”
evade
(verb) practice evasion; “This man always hesitates and evades”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
evade (third-person singular simple present evades, present participle evading, simple past and past participle evaded)
(transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
(transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
(intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
Synonyms
• equivocate
• shuffle
• dodge
• end-run
• sidestep
• give the go-by
• give someone the runaround
Anagrams
• eaved
Source: Wiktionary
E*vade" (v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evaded; p. pr. & vb. n.. Evading.] Etym: [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'Ă©vader. See Wade.]
Definition: 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. Trench.
E*vade", v. t.
1. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. "Evading from perils." Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.
2. 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. South.
Syn. - To equivocate; shuffle. See Prevaricate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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