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English to English verb
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avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) |  | Example: He dodged the issue
she skirted the problem
They tend to evade their responsibilities
he evaded the questions skillfully
source: wordnet30
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escape, either physically or mentally | | Example: The thief eluded the police
This difficult idea seems to evade her
The event evades explanation
source: wordnet30
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practice evasion | | Example: This man always hesitates and evades
source: wordnet30
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use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | | Example: The con man always evades
source: wordnet30
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To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. | | source: webster1913
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To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. | | source: webster1913
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