0 present participle of evade
1 to avoid or escape from someone or something:
The police have assured the public that the escaped prisoners will not evade recapture for long.
She leaned forward to kiss him but he evaded her by pretending to sneeze.
An Olympic gold medal is the only thing that has evaded her in her remarkable career.
[ + -ing verb ] He can't evade doing military service forever.
The national organization had been evading similar uprisings in the profession for some time.
We are not free to ignore foot structure as a way of evading this constraint.
The chronicler turned regicide into a non-problem by evading the subject altogether.
Once they succeeded in evading this order, the scheme opened up new opportunities for popular headmen to bind their followers more successfully.
It was a way of evading the need to face up to their own responsibility for what had happened.
So the evading-responsibility worry has much more force against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere.
Intelligent actors can sometimes find ways of evading these constraints.
There also exist disconnected traditions which are handed on through discontinuity and contradiction, evading the straight path.
