evade
(verb)
verb
1. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- They tend to evade their responsibilities
- he evaded the questions skillfully
Similar word(s): circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt
Definition categories: communication, avoid
2. escape, either physically or mentally
- This difficult idea seems to evade her
- The event evades explanation
Definition categories: motion, escape
3. practice evasion
- This man always hesitates and evades
Definition categories: social, act, move
4. use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
- The con man always evades
Definition categories: communication, escape
Sentences with evade as a verb:
- Evading from perils. — Francis Bacon.Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — John Milton.
- The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. — Robert South.