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Definition of Evade
Evade

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.

To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.

To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

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Evade Quotations

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
Paul Tsongas

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins

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.
Lawrence Durrell

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.
David Guterson

Evade Translations

evade in Afrikaans is vermy
evade in Dutch is mijden, uit de weg gaan, ontwijken
evade in German is ausweichen
evade in Italian is schivare
evade in Portuguese is evitar
evade in Spanish is evadir


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