Both Uses of
evade
in
1984, by Orwell
- 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.
p. 131.9 *evading = trying to avoid
- He could evade its pangs if he was quick-witted enough: it was chiefly when he showed stupidity that O'Brien pulled the lever.
p. 261.1evade = avoid
Definitions:
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(1)
(evade as in: evade the enemy) physically avoid or get away from; or: said of something that is hard to obtain
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(2)
(evade as in: evade the question) to avoid or try to avoid either a responsibility or telling the whole truth