To evade is to avoid something or someone. When the police are trying to catch a criminal, they may try to evade them by running away.
He tried to evade the police by running away.
The company tried to evade responsibility by saying that the problem was with the other company.
verb
To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
verb
To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
verb
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
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They have evaded the question in the past.
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One of the reasons was to evade the controversies like this.
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Several others evaded the police dragnet.
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The Cocoon takes off and evades the armada.
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He evaded capture for days and nights.
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But the children easily evade the men and leave the island.
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The family manages to evade the Critters and get into the house.
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This technicality is intended to evade the law and thwart the Will of Congress.
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Ginny and Tim evade security and hide the bag in the attic.
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The claim was always purely a canard to evade the establishment clause.