evaded; evading
1
: to elude by dexterity or stratagem
2
a
: to avoid facing up to
evaded the real issues
b
: to avoid the performance of : dodge, circumvent
especially
: to fail to pay (taxes)
c
: to avoid answering directly : turn aside
3
: to be elusive to : baffle
the simple, personal meaning evaded them—
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evader
noun
Examples of evade in a Sentence
The criminals have so far managed to evade the police.
a politician skilled at evading difficult questions
The governor has been accused of evading the issue.
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If your privacy practices have been less than perfect in the past—and whose have not, given the vanishingly tiny odds of evading every form of digital data collection—additional information about you from over the years is likely available from hundreds of data brokers.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 16 June 2025
Hundreds of Iranian missiles rained down across Israel beginning Saturday night, some of them evading the country's sophisticated defense systems.
—Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 15 June 2025
The revelation came at the end of a weeklong judicial misconduct hearing involving Massachusetts judge Shelley Joseph, who is accused of orchestrating a scheme with a defense attorney that allowed a Dominican national, previously deported twice, to evade federal immigration authorities.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 14 June 2025
Buckler was taken into custody and charged with risk of injury to child, first-degree reckless endangerment, reckless driving, disobeying the signal of an officer, evading responsibility and failure to drive in the proper lane.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025
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Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 16 June 2025
Hundreds of Iranian missiles rained down across Israel beginning Saturday night, some of them evading the country's sophisticated defense systems.
—Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 15 June 2025
The revelation came at the end of a weeklong judicial misconduct hearing involving Massachusetts judge Shelley Joseph, who is accused of orchestrating a scheme with a defense attorney that allowed a Dominican national, previously deported twice, to evade federal immigration authorities.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 14 June 2025
Buckler was taken into custody and charged with risk of injury to child, first-degree reckless endangerment, reckless driving, disobeying the signal of an officer, evading responsibility and failure to drive in the proper lane.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025
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“Evade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evade. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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evade
verb
evaded; evading
1
: to get away from or avoid by skill or trickery
evade a question
evade capture
2
: to escape the understanding of
the meaning of the message evaded them
evader
noun
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