(~s, evading, ~d)
1.
If you ~ something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do.
By his own admission, he ~d taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator...
Delegates accused them of trying to ~ responsibility for the failures of the past five years.
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ capture because of the breakdown of a police computer.
VERB: V n, V n