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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EVA'DE, v.t. [L. evado; e and vado, to go.]
1. To avoid by dexterity. The man evaded the blow aimed at his head.
2. To avoid or escape by artifice or stratagem; to slip away; to elude. The thief evaded his pursuers.
3. To elude by subterfuge, sophistry, address or ingenuity. The advocate evades an argument or the force of an argument.
4. To escape as imperceptible or not to be reached or seized.
EVA'DE, v.i. To escape; to slip away; formerly and properly with from; as, to evade from perils. But from is now seldom used.
1. 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 in any such ways.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]
2: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" [syn: elude, evade, bilk]
3: practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"
4: use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"

Merriam Webster's

verb (evaded; evading) Etymology: Middle French & Latin; Middle French evader, from Latin evadere, from e- + vadere to go, walk — more at wade Date: 1513 intransitive verb 1. to slip away 2. to take refuge in escape or avoidance transitive verb 1. to elude by dexterity or stratagem 2. a. to avoid facing up to <evaded the real issues> b. to avoid the performance of ; dodge, circumvent; especially to fail to pay (taxes) c. to avoid answering directly ; turn aside 3. to be elusive to ; baffle <the simple, personal meaning evaded them — C. D. Lewis> Synonyms: see escape • evadable adjective • evader noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 a escape from, avoid, esp. by guile or trickery. b avoid doing (one's duty etc.). c avoid answering (a question) or yielding to (an argument). 2 a fail to pay (tax due). b defeat the intention of (a law etc.), esp. while complying with its letter. 3 (of a thing) elude or baffle (a person). Derivatives: evadable adj. evader n. Etymology: F évader f. L evadere (as E-, vadere vas- go)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Evade 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Evade E*vade" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evaded; p. pr. & vb. n.. Evading.] [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'['e]vader. See Wade.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(evades, evading, evaded) 1. If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do. By his own admission, he evaded taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator... Delegates accused them of trying to evade responsibility for the failures of the past five years. VERB: V n, V n 2. If you evade a question or a topic, you avoid talking about it or dealing with it. Too many companies, she says, are evading the issue. VERB: V n 3. If you evade someone or something, you move so that you can avoid meeting them or avoid being touched or hit. She turned and gazed at the river, evading his eyes... He managed to evade capture because of the breakdown of a police computer. VERB: V n, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Elude, escape, escape from, steal away from, get away from (by artifice). 2. Avoid, shun, decline. 3. Surpass (one's powers), baffle, foil, elude. II. v. n. Equivocate, shuffle, fence, quibble, dodge, prevaricate, palter.

Moby Thesaurus

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