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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary evade (evad·ed ; evad·ing) ETYMOLOGY Middle French & Latin; Middle French evader,from Latin evadere, from e- + vadere to go, walk — more at wade DATE 1513 intransitive verb 1. to slip away 2. to take refuge in escape or avoidance transitive verb 1. to elude by dexterity or stratagem 2. a. to avoid facing up to evaded the real issues b. to avoid the performance of : dodge , circumvent ; especially :to fail to pay (taxes) c. to avoid answering directly : turn aside 3. to be elusive to : baffle the simple, personal meaning evaded them — C. D. Lewis Synonyms: see escape • evad·er noun English Etymology evade 1513, from M.Fr . evader, from L. evadere "to escape, get away," from ex- "away" + vadere "to go, walk" (see vamoose).http://M.Fr Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 evade evade / i5veid / verb1. to escape from sb / sth or avoid meeting sb 逃脱；躲开；躲避: ▪ [VN] For two weeks they evaded the press. 他们有两周一直避而不见记者。 He managed to evade capture. 他设法逃脱了抓捕。 ▪ [also V -ing] 2. to find a way of not doing sth, especially sth that legally or morally you should do 逃避,规避(尤指法律或道德责任): ▪ [VN] to evade payment of taxes 逃税 She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour. 她在试图逃避应为自己的行为承担的所有责任。 ▪ [also V -ing] 3. to avoid dealing with or talking about sth 回避,避开(处理或谈论某事): ▪ [VN] Come on, don't you think you're evading the issue ? 得了吧,你不认为你是在回避这个问题吗？ ▪ [V -ing] to evade answering a question 避而不答某一问题 4. [VN] (formal) to not come or happen to sb 想不出；不发生 SYN elude :
The answer evaded him (= he could not think of it). 他答不上来。 ⇨ see also evasion , evasive Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English evade verb 1 escape ADV. narrowly They narrowly evaded a police car which was approaching. | successfully VERB + EVADE attempt to, try to | manage to He managed to evade capture and escaped over the border. 2 avoid dealing with sth ADV. simply Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether. | carefully, skilfully | easily Responsibility could not be so easily evaded. | altogether VERB + EVADE attempt to, try to OLT evade verb ⇨ evade (evade taxes/the issue)⇨ escape (evade capture) Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged evade \ə̇ˈvād, ēˈ-\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle French & Latin; Middle French evader, from Latin evadere, from e- + vadere to go, walk — more at wade intransitive verb 1. : to slip away : give someone the slip < submariners have always despised the need to evade in order to escape — S.D.Cutter > 2. : to take refuge in evasion : use craft or stratagem in avoidance : avoid facing up to something < wisdom consists … in learning when to evade, when to stave off, and when to oppose head on — Irving Howe > < the adult who regresses to the infantile … evades — H.A.Overstreet > transitive verb 1. a. (1) : to get away from (a pursuer or enemy) by dexterity or stratagem : avoid capture by : shun or avoid contact or confrontation with : elude , escape , avoid < evaded the police and crossed the border into safety > < he … tried to evade her kisses — Winifred Bambrick > < guiltily evaded her accusing look > (2) : to avoid facing up to (a fact or condition) < though she knew … her father would never be up again, she united with her mother in evading the fact — Ellen Glasgow > < prefers to evade home truths … by saying what he does not really mean — Va. Quarterly Review > b. (1) : to manage to avoid the preformance of (an obligation) :escape from doing or experiencing (something disagreeable) : circumvent , dodge < I have a horror of the men who evaded service during the war — Rose Macaulay > < the French had been limited to a hundred thousand troops … but they had managed … to evade this limit — Upton Sinclair > < several very safe and easy methods of evading the law — Adam Smith > specifically : to fail to pay or to minimize (taxes) in violation of law < served a term … for evading his income tax — H.H.Martin > (2) : to get around (an intellectual obstacle) < the traditional way of evading the difficulty … is to have recourse to … “vitalism” — A.N.Whitehead > c. : to avoid answering directly (as a question or a questioner) :turn aside : parry < tried to evade his query but he was not to be put off > < tried to evade this nonsensical demand — Alfred Burmeister > 2. : baffle , elude : be baffling or elusive to < the simple, personal meaning evaded them — C.D.Lewis > Synonyms: see escape |
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