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verb (v)

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)(verb.communication)

  Example:
  They tend to evade their responsibilities.
  He evaded the questions skillfully.
  

  Synonym:
  circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt
  

  source: wordnet30
• escape, either physically or mentally(verb.motion)

  Example:
  This difficult idea seems to evade her.
  The event evades explanation.
  

  Synonym:
  bilk, elude
  

  source: wordnet30
• practice evasion(verb.social)

  Example:
  This man always hesitates and evades.
  

  source: wordnet30
• use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid(verb.communication)

  Example:
  The con man always evades.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.(verb)

  source: webster1913