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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)

The technology allows the planes to evade detection from radar.

evade = avoid

I'm sorry, but your point evades me.

evades = is not understood by

They traveled at night to evade detection.

evade = avoid

At dusk we move indoors to evade the mosquitoes.

evade = get away from

He moved to Canada in the 1960s in order to evade being drafted into the armed services in the United States.

evade = avoid

And her strategy has been to evade, not attack.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

evade = physically avoid or get away from

...suddenly he caught her face between his two hands and kissed her, before really she could evade him.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

evade = get away from

I hurried from the girls' locker room, pleased to find that I had successfully evaded my retriever friend for the moment.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight

evaded = use cunning or dexterity to physically avoid

When a prisoner of style escapes it's called an evasion.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

evasion = physically getting away

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

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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.

evaded = avoided answering

She did not try to evade responsibility for her error.
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

evaded = avoided or tried to avoid

"That's exactly the kind of topic Haymitch told me to steer clear of," I say evasively,
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

evasively = in an attempt to avoid answering the question

"I don't know yet," she said evasively.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road

evasively = in a manner that avoided answering directly

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

evading = trying to avoid

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