Word Finder - evade

definition

To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from

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He evaded his opponent's blows.

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To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.

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To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

I've never met anyone who could evade a question as well as he can.

He would simply evade the question - like he did in Texas.

I was compelled to evade her question, for I could not explain to her the mystery of a self-existent being.

They can't evade each other the way they can in the mortal world, so they use bodyguards.

To evade the second claim, Clement gave way on the first.

Alex wouldn't lie, but if he was given enough time to think about it, he could certainly evade the issue.

The trouble was due mainly to the repeated efforts of the Knights to evade the fulfilment of the obligations of the Treaty of Thorn.

Order, however, having been restored, in 1850 he dismissed the Liberal ministry and attempted to evade his concessions; a bitter struggle had just broken out when Ernest Augustus died in November 1851.

Thirty years of friction followed, while the parliament, and the ruling classes tried in a spasmodic way to enforce the statute, and the peasantry strove to evade it.

Nevertheless there is no tendency on the part of modern determinists to evade the difficulty.

Many Jews found it possible to evade laws of domicile by residing in one place and trading in another.

To avoid being ambushed or surrounded by creatures, roll with the right analog stick to evade enemies and get out of difficult situations.

Thus Cicero frequently speaks as if his client were to be put to death, though a criminal could always evade capital consequences by going into exile.

More especially was this the case as his Norman followers were disposed to evade the liabilities of their English predecessors.

The religious penal code it was thought meritorious to evade; the commercial penal code was ostentatiously defied; and both tended to make Ireland the least law-abiding country in Europe.

This, he said, would lead to an increase in correspondence and virtually abolish all attempts to evade paying postage.

In April 1993, suspected drug dealer Alfred Acree tried to evade capture in Charles County, Virginia, by running into a wood.

Robert Fortune disguised himself as an Asian to evade capture and brought back Pom pom chrysanthemums.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.

But I crashed in here, looking to evade some of them, and found you instead, about to become much less lifelike.

The ultimate cause of evolving locomotion with a low transport costs is to evade pursuit - at which the red deer is extremely good.

Baghdad has mobile facilities for producing bacterial toxin BW agents; these facilities can evade detection and are highly survivable.

You can evade enemies who use melee weapons and it can give you a chance to heal without being attacked.

Use the block button (L1) frequently to evade damage.

The women's and girls' styles are available in a cool grey, white, and icy pink Speed and a teal, grey, and white Evade.

In folklore, fairies often only come out at night in order to evade prying human eyes.

Should your laptop grow wings, at least your important documents and proprietary information may evade capture.

Please change my hands into gazelle hands, change my feet into gazelle hands, change my feet into gazelle feet, so I can evade my demons.

Robert Fortune disguised himself as an Asian to evade capture and brought back pom Pom pom chrysanthemums.

Small bodied species, like roe deer, may evade predators more by concealment.

After the victory Oebares kills Astyages against the will of Cyrus, and afterwards kills himself to evade the wrath of Cyrus.

All Napoleon's efforts' to support his troops in Malta and Egypt were necessarily made under the hampering obligation to evade the British forces barring the road.

Its obligation rests on the good faith of the parties to the reference, and on the fact that, with the help of a world-wide press, public opinion can always be brought to bear on any state that seeks to evade its moral duty.

It is difficult to believe that this doctrine was ever put forward sincerely; in the most of those who professed it, it was certainly no more than a veil by which they sought to cover their heterodoxy and evade its consequences.

But he found it difficult to avoid taking a side; he was importuned to sign the Covenant, and "finding it impossible to evade doing very unhandsome things," he obtained leave in October 1643 from the king to travel abroad.

In carrying out the regime of Rampolla, which was, in every respect, a bad imitation of that of Antonelli, the Vatican left no stone unturned in its attempt to coerce the conscience of the French royalists; it did not even stop at dishonour, as was evidenced by the case of the unhappy Mgr d'Hulst, who, in order to evade the censorship of his pamphlet on Old Testament criticism, had to abandon both his king and his principles, only to die in exile of a broken heart.

One class of Abolitionists sought to evade the difficulty by strained interpretations of the clauses referred to, while others, admitting that they were immoral, felt themselves obliged, notwithstanding, to support the constitution in order to avoid what they thought would be still greater evils.

The railway up the right bank of the Nile was continued to Kerma, in order to evade the difficulties of the 3rd cataract; but the sirdar had conceived the bold project of cutting off the great angle of the Nile from Wadi Haifa to Abu Hamed, involving nearly 600 m.

This public sale of slaves was prohibited in the coast towns, c. 1850, under pressure from European powers, but means are found to evade the prohibition.

A party of the younger monks, to evade the double pressure of the king and bishops, secretly elected their sub-prior Reginald and sent him to Rome for confirmation.

Kimberley (the new secretary of state for the colonies) announcing his reca11.3 Frere's task was one of extreme delicacy; he chose to face difficulties rather than evade them, and had he been unfettered in his Sir Bartle action might have accomplished much more than Frere.

With the laudable object of releasing Danish trade from the grinding yoke of the Hansa, and making Copenhagen the great emporium of the north, Christian had arbitrarily raised the Sound tolls and seized a number of Dutch ships which presumed to evade the tax.

The railways determined to evade the law, but Taylor promptly brought suit in the State Supreme Court and an injunction was issued restraining the companies from disobedience.

All we can say is that in the development of Christian thought the conflict of conceptions was far more profoundly felt, and far more serious efforts were made to evade or transcend it.

The fact is that with few exceptions evolutionary moral philosophers evade the choice between alternatives which is always presented to them.

The Immortal knew as much as Gabe about the portals and how to evade those who followed.

Watchers and Others were able to evade him, except when they were within range.

Xander didn't like the idea of letting someone who was able to evade him – and possibly connected to Jonny – just leave.

E3 has therefore been called the " stealth " gene, allowing adenoviruses to evade the host immune response.

Please change my hands into gazelle hands, change my feet into gazelle feet, so I can evade my demons.