EVADE


Meaning of EVADE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪveɪd ]

( evades, evading, evaded)

1.

If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do.

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

Delegates accused them of trying to evade responsibility for the failures of the past five years.

VERB : V n , V n

2.

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

Too many companies, she says, are evading the issue.

VERB : V n

3.

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

She turned and gazed at the river, evading his eyes...

He managed to evade capture because of the breakdown of a police computer.

VERB : V n , V n

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