All 3 Uses of
evade
in
Anna Karenina
- The waiter, who was busy with a party of engineers dining in the dining hall, came several times with an irate countenance in answer to her summons, and could not avoid carrying out her orders, as she gave them with such gracious insistence that there was no evading her.†
Part 5
- Everyone was kind and civil, but the point evaded seemed to crop up again in the end, and again to bar the way.†
Part 6
- "Perhaps so," said Levin evasively; "but I don't see it.†
Part 8 *
Definition:
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(evade as in: evade the enemy) physically avoid or get away from; or: said of something that is hard to obtain