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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.

verb-intransitive. To practice evasion.

verb-intransitive. To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping.

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.

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.

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.

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)

"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."

evaded    evades    evading   

break loose    getaway    escape    act    move    get out    get off    get by   

prevaricate   

evaded    evading    evadible    evasion    evasive    evasible   

elude    prevaricate    shuffle    equivocate    escape    avoid    dodge    bilk    bluff    funk   

Blade    Cade    Crusade    Dade    Jade    Kincaid    Slade    Wade    ade    afraid