2 meanings
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1 —as in:
evade the enemy
Definition
physically avoid or get away from; or: said of something that is hard to obtain- The robber evaded the police and blended into the crowd.
evaded = got away from
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- This difficult idea seems to evade her
- And her strategy has been to evade, not attack.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- ...suddenly he caught her face between his two hands and kissed her, before really she could evade him.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- I hurried from the girls' locker room, pleased to find that I had successfully evaded my retriever friend for the moment.Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
- When a prisoner of style escapes it's called an evasion.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- He tries to evade the question, but in the end has to confess, for Kropp tells the same story.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog.George Orwell -- 1984
- The men in his legions worshipped him not only for his courage and cunning but for his uncanny ability— to evade death even when facing appalling odds.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- The first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
evade = to be hard to obtain (hard to get)
evade = physically avoid or get away from
evade = get away from
evaded = use cunning or dexterity to physically avoid
evasion = physically getting away
evade = avoid
evading = trying to avoid
evasion = physically getting away
2 —as in:
evade the question
Definition
to avoid or try to avoid either a responsibility or telling the whole truth- She evaded his question by asking one of her own.
evaded = avoided answering
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- She evaded the questions skillfully.
- They tend to evade their responsibilities
- his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible
- As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.German Proverb
- To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.Fritz Kunkel
- Which brings me back to my question—the one you so cleverly evaded.Alex Flinn -- Beastly
- "That's exactly the kind of topic Haymitch told me to steer clear of," I say evasively,Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- "I don't know yet," she said evasively.Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
- In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist.Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
evaded = avoided answering
evaded = avoided or tried to avoid
evasively = in an attempt to avoid answering the question
evasively = in a manner that avoided answering directly
evading = trying to avoid