Evade

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  • intransitive verb. To escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or deceit.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • 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.
  • The 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. 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.
  • verb. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  • verb. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
  • 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)
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    act  break loose  escape  get by  get off  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blade  Cade  Crusade  Dade  Jade  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    evaded  evades  evading