evade : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: evade	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for evade
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evade v 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" Synonym(s): hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" Synonym(s): elude, evade, bilk practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades" use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evade \Evade"\, v. t. 1. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. [bd]Evading from perils.[b8] --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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evade \Evade"\ ([?]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.. {Evading}.] [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'[82]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.