evade

evade
[[t]ɪve͟ɪd[/t]]
evades, evading, evaded
1) VERB If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do.

[V n] By his own admission, he evaded taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator...

[V n] Delegates accused them of trying to evade responsibility for the failures of the past five years.

2) VERB If you evade a question or a topic, you avoid talking about it or dealing with it.

[V n] Mr Portillo denied he was evading the question...

[V n] Too many companies, she says, are evading the issue.

3) VERB If you evade someone or something, you move so that you can avoid meeting them or avoid being touched or hit.

[V n] Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears...

[V n] She turned and gazed at the river, evading his eyes...

[V n] He managed to evade capture because of the breakdown of a police computer.

4) VERB If something such as success, glory, or love evades you, you do not manage to have it. [LITERARY]

[V n] Happiness, which had been so elusive in Henry's life, still evaded him...

[V n] When she sat down at her desk she found that the words evaded her.


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  • évade — évade …   Dictionnaire des rimes

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  • évadé — évadé, ée [ evade ] adj. et n. • 1611; de évader 1 ♦ Qui s est échappé. Des prisonniers évadés. 2 ♦ N. Personne qui s est échappée. ⇒ fugitif. Reprendre, capturer un évadé. ● évadé, évadée adjectif et nom Se dit de quelqu un qui s est évadé de l… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • evade — /i vād/ vt evad·ed, evad·ing 1: to unlawfully fail to pay (taxes) through fraudulent or deceptive means compare avoid 2: to avoid answering directly trying to evade the question Merriam Webster’s Dictionary …   Law dictionary

  • evade — e‧vade [ɪˈveɪd] verb [transitive] TAX LAW to not do something that you should do according to the law, for example not paying tax: • He was charged with evading $12.6 million of taxes. compare avoid evasion noun …   Financial and business terms

  • evade — [ē vād′, ivād′] vi. evaded, evading [Fr évader < L evadere < e , out, from + vadere, to go: see WADE] 1. Rare to escape; get away 2. to be deceitful or clever in avoiding or escaping something; use evasion vt. 1. to avoid or escape from by… …   English World 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Evade — E*vade , v. t. 1. To escape; to slip away; sometimes with from. Evading from perils. Bacon. [1913 Webster] Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To attempt to escape; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • évadé — évadé, ée (é va dé, dée) part. passé. Qui s est échappé de quelque lieu. Un forçat évadé du bagne.    Substantivement. On a repris les évadés …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • Évadé — (franz., »Ausgerissener, Entsprungener«), ursprünglich verächtliche Bezeichnung, die den katholischen Priestern beigelegt wurde, die ihr Amt niederlegten und den Priesterrock auszogen; dann von diesen selbst als Ehrenname angenommen, um sich als… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • evade — 1510s, escape, from M.Fr. evader, from L. evadere to escape, get away, from ex away (see EX (Cf. ex )) + vadere to go, walk (see VAMOOSE (Cf. vamoose)). Related: Evaded; evading. Special sense of esc …   Etymology dictionary

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