0 past simple and past 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 third area relates to subjects where the centrality of the body has been evaded for reason of 'good practice'.
Some clues about how decoherence might be evaded are discussed.
However, some of the larger issues prompted by history - and its various interpretations - are evaded.
It seemed that chemists qua chemists had answered questions that had evaded everyone else: now chemistry provoked conversation indeed.
It proceeds from tonic to a long preparation for the first voice-dominated music through prolongation of the dominant and evaded tonic cadences.
Lastly, the matter of the relationship between violence and political conflict was evaded.
Unhappy workers evaded the new requirements by producing ninety bundles containing fewer than thirty leaves.
All over the federation, villagers evaded labour recruitment, refused to make compulsory crop deliveries and stopped paying taxes.
