- 1evade (doing) something to escape from somebody/something or avoid meeting somebody For two weeks they evaded the press. He managed to evade capture. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adverbnarrowly, successfully verb + evadeattempt to, try to, manage to, … See full entry
- 2evade (doing) something to find a way of not doing something, especially something that legally or morally you should do to evade payment of taxes She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour. He never sought to evade his responsibilities. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adverbsimply, carefully, neatly, … verb + evadeattempt to, seek to, try to, … See full entry
- 3to avoid dealing with or talking about something evade something Come on, don't you think you're evading the issue? evade doing something to evade answering a question Oxford Collocations Dictionary adverbsimply, carefully, neatly, … verb + evadeattempt to, seek to, try to, … See full entry
- 4evade somebody (formal) to not come or happen to somebody synonym elude The answer evaded him (= he could not think of it). see also evasion, evasive Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French évader, from Latin evadere from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + vadere ‘go’.Extra examples Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether. Responsibility could not be so easily evaded. They narrowly evaded a police car which was approaching. She is trying to evade all responsibility for her actions. The defendant had tried to evade payment of taxes. There is no point in evading the issue any longer. to elude/evade detection/capture/the police/your pursuers
evade
verbBrE BrE//ɪˈveɪd//; NAmE NAmE//ɪˈveɪd//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they evade BrE BrE//ɪˈveɪd//; NAmE NAmE//ɪˈveɪd//
he / she / it evades BrE BrE//ɪˈveɪdz//; NAmE NAmE//ɪˈveɪdz//
past simple evaded BrE BrE//ɪˈveɪdɪd//; NAmE NAmE//ɪˈveɪdɪd//
past participle evaded BrE BrE//ɪˈveɪdɪd//; NAmE NAmE//ɪˈveɪdɪd//
-ing form evading BrE BrE//ɪˈveɪdɪŋ//; NAmE NAmE//ɪˈveɪdɪŋ//
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