evade

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ verb
1 to escape from sb/sth or avoid meeting sb: [VN] For two weeks they evaded the press. + He managed to evade capture. [also V -ing]
2 to find a way of not doing sth, especially sth that legally or morally you should do: [VN] to evade payment of taxes + She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour. + He never sought to evade his responsibilities. [also V -ing]
3 to avoid dealing with or talking about sth: [VN] Come on, don't you think you're evading the issue? + [V -ing] to evade answering a question
4 [VN] (formal) to not come or happen to sb
Synonym: ELUDE
The answer evaded him (= he could not think of it).
See also - EVASION, EVASIVE

Thesaurus dictionary

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v.

1 avoid, elude, dodge, sidestep, escape (from); get away (from), get out of, duck, circumvent, shirk, Colloq chiefly US and Canadian weasel out (of):

The prisoner evaded capture. Don't evade your responsibilities.

2 quibble, equivocate, tergiversate, manoeuvre, hedge, shuffle, fudge, fence, parry, Colloq waffle, Slang cop out:

The witness continued to evade the barrister's questions.

Collocation dictionary

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¹ escape

ADV.

narrowly

They narrowly evaded a police car which was approaching.

| successfully

VERB + EVADE

attempt to, try to | manage to

He managed to evade capture and escaped over the border.

² avoid dealing with sth

ADV.

simply

Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether.

| carefully, skilfully | easily

Responsibility could not be so easily evaded.

| altogether

VERB + EVADE

attempt to, try to

Concise English dictionary

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evades|evaded|evadingɪ'veɪd
verb
+avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
+escape, either physically or mentally
+practice evasion
+use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid