When you evade something, you escape it. You could evade a police chase by slipping into a secret alley, or you could evade your mother's questions about the missing cookies by slipping into another topic.
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.
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.
Verb
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
Verb
use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con mane always evades"
Verb
escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
Verb
practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
v. t.
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry,
for the purpose of eluding.
Evade
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.
Evade
Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove.2.
The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways.
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.
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.
To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
Usage Examples
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesPeople 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.
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.
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