evade
verb/ɪˈveɪd/
/ɪˈveɪd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they evade | /ɪˈveɪd/ /ɪˈveɪd/ |
| he / she / it evades | /ɪˈveɪdz/ /ɪˈveɪdz/ |
| past simple evaded | /ɪˈveɪdɪd/ /ɪˈveɪdɪd/ |
| past participle evaded | /ɪˈveɪdɪd/ /ɪˈveɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form evading | /ɪˈveɪdɪŋ/ /ɪˈveɪdɪŋ/ |
- evade (doing) something to escape from somebody/something or avoid meeting somebody
- For two weeks they evaded the press.
- He managed to evade capture.
- They narrowly evaded a police car which was approaching.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- narrowly
- successfully
- attempt to
- try to
- manage to
- …
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- evade (doing) something to find a way of not doing something, especially something that legally or morally you should do
- The defendant had tried to evade payment of taxes.
- She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour.
- He never sought to evade his responsibilities.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- simply
- carefully
- neatly
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- to avoid dealing with or talking about something
- evade something Come on, don't you think you're evading the issue?
- evade doing something to evade answering a question
- Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- simply
- carefully
- neatly
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- evade somebody (formal) to not come or happen to somebody synonym elude
- The answer evaded him (= he could not think of it).
see also evasion, evasive
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French évader, from Latin evadere from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + vadere ‘go’.
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