Evade
verb
To avoid or escape from a person, thing, or situation, especially in a clever or dishonest way.
She managed to evade her pursuers by escaping through a side street.
Often appears as...
- evade capture
- evade responsibility
verb
To avoid answering a question directly, often to hide the truth.
When asked about his past, he evaded the question.
Often appears as...
- evade a question
- evade an issue
verb
To intentionally not pay or avoid obeying something like a law.
He was arrested for evading taxes.
Often appears as...
- evade taxes
- evade the law
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verb
To avoid or escape from a person, thing, or situation, especially in a clever or dishonest way.
She managed to evade her pursuers by escaping through a side street.
Often appears as...
- evade capture
- evade responsibility
verb
To avoid answering a question directly, often to hide the truth.
When asked about his past, he evaded the question.
Often appears as...
- evade a question
- evade an issue
verb
To intentionally not pay or avoid obeying something like a law.
He was arrested for evading taxes.
Often appears as...
- evade taxes
- evade the law
Usage tips
Disapproving
Legal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Clever Avoidance
Used when someone smartly dodges an unwanted situation or obligation.
The magician evaded capture with impressive tricks.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Evade' often suggests trickery or deceitfulness.
She tried to evade doing chores by pretending to be ill.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Escapes
Often refers to physical elusion, like escaping from a place.
He evaded the guards and fled the building.
Pro Tip 1/3Clever Avoidance
Used when someone smartly dodges an unwanted situation or obligation.
The magician evaded capture with impressive tricks.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Evade' often suggests trickery or deceitfulness.
She tried to evade doing chores by pretending to be ill.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Escapes
Often refers to physical elusion, like escaping from a place.
He evaded the guards and fled the building.
Pro Tip 1/3Clever Avoidance
Used when someone smartly dodges an unwanted situation or obligation.
The magician evaded capture with impressive tricks.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Evade' often suggests trickery or deceitfulness.
She tried to evade doing chores by pretending to be ill.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Escapes
Often refers to physical elusion, like escaping from a place.
He evaded the guards and fled the building.
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The rebel radio that...
And because they operated in a relatively small area, its broadcasters had to move constantly to evade capture. To communicate undetected, the group modified two radios into telephones, linked together through kilometers of barbed wire covering the countryside. This secret telephone line helped the rebels
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Coneheads, egg stacks...
This single determined termite is braving countless threats to participate in the only flight of her lifetime. She evades the onslaught of predators even as she lands, flips off her wings, secretes pheromones, and attracts a mate. The pair dash from the danger zone into a rotting tree stump.
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How we need to remake...
there have been comparisons of positive and negative stimuli. In this setting, a commercial setting, there's a new kind of difference that has kind of evaded the academic world for a while, and that difference is that whether positive stimuli
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This weird trick will...
Another hypothesis was that worm grunting tickled their bodies, so they emerged to end the aggravation. Whimsical! But worm grunting vibrates the ground’s surface. If worms were evading the vibrations, wouldn't they burrow deeper instead?
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How do schools of fish...
but that's not just because they enjoy each other's company. It's a matter of survival. Schools of fish exhibit complex swarming behaviors that help them evade hungry predators, while a lone fish is quickly singled out as easy prey.
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The sound the universe...
Will it happen again? I mean, in the spirit of rising to TED's challenge to reignite wonder, we can ask questions, at least for this last minute, that honestly might evade us forever. But we have to Is it possible that our universe
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Kayvon Tehranian: How...
than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership -- ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world -- have evaded us in our digital spaces.
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Dugongs vs. Tiger Sharks...
depth may be how the dugongs managed to evade the Sharks shallow water means tiger sharks so dugongs do a lot of their foraging in deep water where the tiger sharks don't hunt another of nature's mystery solved
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Watch this if you're...
They stomp their feet at rattlesnakes, kick sand towards them, and evade their strikes with acrobatic leaps and powerful kicks— helping them live to guide another snake tour.
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BBC Earth's Best Of The...
and the deep blue sea if the flying fish get too much lift they become easy prey for the frigates if they dive to evade attacks from above
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The rebel radio that...
And because they operated in a relatively small area, its broadcasters had to move constantly to evade capture. To communicate undetected, the group modified two radios into telephones, linked together through kilometers of barbed wire covering the countryside. This secret telephone line helped the rebels
Video examples
Coneheads, egg stacks...
This single determined termite is braving countless threats to participate in the only flight of her lifetime. She evades the onslaught of predators even as she lands, flips off her wings, secretes pheromones, and attracts a mate. The pair dash from the danger zone into a rotting tree stump.
Video examples
How we need to remake...
there have been comparisons of positive and negative stimuli. In this setting, a commercial setting, there's a new kind of difference that has kind of evaded the academic world for a while, and that difference is that whether positive stimuli
Video examples
This weird trick will...
Another hypothesis was that worm grunting tickled their bodies, so they emerged to end the aggravation. Whimsical! But worm grunting vibrates the ground’s surface. If worms were evading the vibrations, wouldn't they burrow deeper instead?
Video examples
How do schools of fish...
but that's not just because they enjoy each other's company. It's a matter of survival. Schools of fish exhibit complex swarming behaviors that help them evade hungry predators, while a lone fish is quickly singled out as easy prey.
Video examples
The sound the universe...
Will it happen again? I mean, in the spirit of rising to TED's challenge to reignite wonder, we can ask questions, at least for this last minute, that honestly might evade us forever. But we have to Is it possible that our universe
Video examples
Kayvon Tehranian: How...
than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership -- ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world -- have evaded us in our digital spaces.
Video examples
Dugongs vs. Tiger Sharks...
depth may be how the dugongs managed to evade the Sharks shallow water means tiger sharks so dugongs do a lot of their foraging in deep water where the tiger sharks don't hunt another of nature's mystery solved
Video examples
Watch this if you're...
They stomp their feet at rattlesnakes, kick sand towards them, and evade their strikes with acrobatic leaps and powerful kicks— helping them live to guide another snake tour.
Video examples
BBC Earth's Best Of The...
and the deep blue sea if the flying fish get too much lift they become easy prey for the frigates if they dive to evade attacks from above
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Quote examples
Nina Bawden
British Writer
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.
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Jeff Duncan
American Politician
I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It's not like they're carrying a sidearm, and they knock on someone's door and say, 'You're evading your taxes.
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Lawrence Durrell
British Writer
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
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Kevin Mitnick
American Businessman
Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
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Steve Wynn
American Businessman
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
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Thomas Sowell
American Economist
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Reuven Rivlin
Israeli Politician
I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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John Gregory Dunne
American Novelist
Evading military service has a long history in American life.
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Nina Bawden
British Writer
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.
Quote examples
Jeff Duncan
American Politician
I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It's not like they're carrying a sidearm, and they knock on someone's door and say, 'You're evading your taxes.
Quote examples
Lawrence Durrell
British Writer
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Quote examples
Kevin Mitnick
American Businessman
Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
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Steve Wynn
American Businessman
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
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Thomas Sowell
American Economist
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Reuven Rivlin
Israeli Politician
I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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John Gregory Dunne
American Novelist
Evading military service has a long history in American life.
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