0 past simple and past participle of evade --
1 to avoid or escape from someone or something: --
[ + -ing verb ] He can't evade doing military service forever.
An Olympic gold medal is the only thing that has evaded her in her remarkable career.
She leaned forward to kiss him but he evaded her by pretending to sneeze.
The police have assured the public that the escaped prisoners will not evade recapture for long.
Many companies evaded national advertising restrictions in this way.
It allowed the tricky issue of demarcating powers to be evaded.
Tax patrols were infrequent and could be evaded relatively easily, enabling people to resist tax pressure for some time.
Unfortunately, these demonstrations were evaded on the belief that they represented a selection of favorable cases.
Its 'will to resolve' is not exactly abandoned, but largely evaded: tritones still sound 'dissonant', but they progress to other tritones.
It felt post-coital in the way it evaded cultural work, limping pusillanimously from one note to the next.
As will be seen below, this is because many strangers evaded the administration's control.
All over the federation, villagers evaded labour recruitment, refused to make compulsory crop deliveries and stopped paying taxes.
