Definition of Evade

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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

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

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell

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

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

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather

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

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

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
Eduard Shevardnadze

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Arthur Capper

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig

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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