evade
/ɪˈveɪd/ verb C1- To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from. · He evaded his opponent's blows.· The robbers evaded the police.
- To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
He/she/it evades · Past evaded · Past participle evaded · -ing form evading
Verb forms
- Base form
- evade
- He/she/it
- evades
- Past
- evaded
- Past participle
- evaded
- -ing form
- evading
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This obliged them to make all the speed they could to evade the enemy, when they could but lament the absence of Dantès, whose superior skill in the management of a vessel would have availed them so materially.
A promise of secrecy was of course very dutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for the curiosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very direct questions on his return, as required some ingenuity to evade, and he was at the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing to publish his prosperous love.
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