| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To avoid, fend, eschew, dodge or shun.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To avert or obviate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To sidestep, elude or shirk. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To escape, flee, swerve or elope.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Present participle conjugation of the verb evade.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (evade) | 1. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully".[Wordnet]. 2. Escape, either physically or mentally; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation".[Wordnet]. 3. Practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades".[Wordnet]. 4. Use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades".[Wordnet]. 5. Use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con mane always evades".[Wordnet]. 6. 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.[Websters]. 7. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.[Websters]. 8. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: evading, evaded, evades, evader, evaders, evadingly and evadedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EVADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EVADING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Escaping; avoiding; eluding; slipping away from danger, pursuit or attack.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of evade. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: evade
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Evade a tax/to | Law | Declared value excess profits tax. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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