evade
    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"

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.
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         The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of
         evading the Christian miracles.          --Trench.
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Evade \E*vade"\, v. t.
   1. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. "Evading
      from perils." --Bacon.
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            Unarmed they might
            Have easily, as spirits evaded swift
            By quick contraction or remove.       --Milton.
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   2. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry,
      for the purpose of eluding.
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            The ministers of God are not to evade and take
            refuge any of these . . . ways.       --South.

   Syn: To equivocate; shuffle. See Prevaricate.
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