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What does evade mean?
Definitions in simple English

evade Verb

— If you evade something, then you try to avoid it or keep away from it.

evade

— verb (= skirt, dodge) 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 — verb (= elude) escape, either physically or mentally The thief eluded the police This difficult idea seems to evade her The event evades explanation — verb practice evasion This man always hesitates and evades — verb use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid The con man always evades

Synonyms evade synonyms

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evade English » English

avoid dodge elude escape shirk sidestep duck shun circumvent parry avert hedge steer clear of run away keep away from slip away fudge flee slip skirt hide get away from eschew equivocate bilk tergiversate slip off shift reach quibble put off prevaricate obscure keep off keep clear of get away forbear fend off escape from deceive beat around the bush yield withdraw ward off verbally stay clear stay away from stay away stand back stall

Topics evade topics

What do people use evade to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape

Conjugation evade conjugation

How do you conjugate evade?

evade · verb

Examples evade examples

How do I use evade in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Don't evade the question.

Movie subtitles

Don't evade the issue.
My pack leader managed to evade the blockade.
Even my enemies know I'd not invent any such lie merely to evade the consequences of my actions.
Ex-husband, and don't evade the question.
They slash across country, wiping out everything that's trying to evade them.
Tell me then. Why do you evade me?
Always harder to evade than enemy bullets.
Do you want me to evade my responsibilities?
Your Honors. I do not evade the responsibility for my actions.
You disguised yourself as a samurai like an actor in a cheap comedy in an attempt to evade the police and cover up your true identity as a yakuza.
They can hardly evade us for long.
I'm not going to evade my obligations.
Why is everyone trying to evade the truth including you?
Now all I have to do is evade the furniture.
You did well to evade that.
By calculating trajectories with my computing power, it would be child's play to evade the path of the oncoming debris.
Tell me of your youth or why you are so gloomy and in such a bad mood today. or rather why your eyes so fearfully evade mine.
Now, that you found me and my fugitive coworkers, who've managed to evade the law for years, our nice fake money and the nice real stamps.
To evade Richelieu and all his spies and then risk being impaled upon a lover's sword?
Shall we die of hunger to evade the death by plague?
Our caresses and clumsy attempts to evade the lack of love between us.
There's one method of identification no one can evade.
Lie and deviate and evade things.
Wait a minute. Don't evade the issue.
Hours turn, dance and evade you.
We can't evade security without the plans.
Your Honours, I do not evade the responsibility for my actions.
Become yourself again, don't evade reality.
Naturally I tried to evade you.
Oh, men always evade questions.
On a ship of this size, could a man evade such a search?
What's the best way to evade a Spitfire, Major?
When you say you're in love with me you're trying to evade sex, your age and your whole life, right?
Your Majesty, do not be deceived by the pathetic ravings of two criminals trying to evade justice.
The Doctor tried to evade security.

News and current affairs

Simply restricting the practice of land clearing probably would not work, since farm families and communities would face a strong temptation to evade legal limits.
The companies routinely bribe officials to gain oil leases, lie about output, evade taxes, and dodge responsibility for the environmental damage that they cause.
Many evade or reject paying taxes, in part by appealing for compassion towards the poor.
Social investments are large, financed by high taxes, which rich people actually pay, rather than evade.
Whenever a firm chooses to evade, it becomes increasingly difficult to find a vendor willing to engage in legal transactions.
And yet the US Congress shamefully continues to evade its responsibility to fund the Federal Highway Trust Fund and put it on a sound long-term basis, owing to disagreement over how to pay for it.
Some Nato members hope to evade these problems altogether through delay.
Specifically, we must steel ourselves against our tendency to evade and shift responsibility.
They ask their government to provide viable jobs for them, to control crime and inflation, and to care for their health, while at the same time they do all they can to evade the taxes needed to pay for these things.
The smugglers had tried to evade detection by building a shielded container - a worrisome level of sophistication on their part.
In addition to impairing the state's ability to provide basic public goods, schemes to evade indirect taxes also discourage businesses from adopting more productive technologies, which requires technologies that involve large-scale operation.
Indeed, a hallmark of the Bush administration's violations of civil liberties is that many involve efforts to evade judicial review.
In this way, such people hope that they can evade their duty to explain today's problems.
The party cannot evade demands for a more social Europe and for solutions to weak growth and high unemployment.
In its recent reports, the FSB has concentrated on capital requirements, on closing legal loopholes that allow banks to evade them, and on improving accounting standards.
The smugglers, exhibiting a worrying level of technical knowledge, had tried to evade detection by building a shielded container.
A multitude of small steps could help - such as giving pro-democracy movements the technology needed to evade autocrats, presenting digital media in a balanced way, and making political parties more responsive to their members.
The Chilean government's excessive caution - rooted in fear of instability that could affect the basic rights regained after the dictatorship - also helped Pinochet evade justice.
Equally important, Israel will be forced to confront the reality of Palestinian despair, which the unique relationship with America has allowed it to obfuscate and evade for too long.
Naturally, regulatory diversity would require cross-border financial controls to ensure that banks do not evade national regulations by operating from foreign jurisdictions.
Similarly, Chilean-style unremunerated reserve requirements may be easier to evade in countries with extensive trading in sophisticated derivatives.
Addressing the political challenge head on is much better than trying to evade the debate.
By framing the debate on reform as being about the type of handouts, governments evade tackling the real problem: their control of economic activity.
Pinochet's ability to evade the courts cast a dark shadow over the country's military institutions and made many Chileans wonder how far the country had really gone in its transition to democracy.

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